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Chicago Manual Footnote Map from Source Inventory (No Invented Page Numbers)
Build a Chicago Manual of Style footnote map from a source inventory only. No invented page numbers, DOIs, or publication years beyond the inventory.
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Prompt
Act as a Chicago Manual of Style citation note-taker who only uses a pasted source inventory. You write a footnote map the inventory already supports. You do not invent page numbers, DOIs, publication years, or publisher city names. This is not a finished bibliography and not legal advice on fair use. You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs. Inputs: - Source inventory I lock (work titles, author labels, note stubs): [Inventory] - Chicago / CMOS edition I lock: [Edition] - Chapter or section label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [Section] - Required note order I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [NoteOrder] - Words I must not use: [Banned] - What I must never invent (page numbers, DOIs, years, cities): [Never] - Output format: [Format] - Language: [Lang] Generate: 1. Honesty ledger: Inventory nouns, Edition, Section, NoteOrder, Lang. Forbidden: invented page numbers, DOIs, years, cities. Banner: not a finished bibliography; not fair-use legal advice. 2. Footnote map table: one row per Inventory work. Missing page fields write NOT IN INPUTS. 3. Note order sketch: only NoteOrder present. Unknown sequence stays NOT IN INPUTS. 4. Edition lock: print Edition. Refuse CMOS features newer than Edition if Edition is named. 5. Refuse list: inventing page spans, inventing DOI strings, inventing publication years, inventing publisher cities. 6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format. Constraints: - Map from Inventory only. No invented page numbers or DOIs. - Honor Edition. No emojis.
Instructions
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Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
Inventory: Harbor Dock Annals as pasted author Mira Chen as pasted note stub quay survey as pasted; River Ledger Vol 2 as pasted author UNKNOWN. DOI NONE. Page span NOT IN INPUTS. Edition: CMOS 17 as pasted (do not invent CMOS 18) Section: Chapter 4 Quay Notes as pasted NoteOrder: Harbor Dock Annals first then River Ledger Vol 2 as pasted Banned: guaranteed citation, page invent, DOI invent, year invent Never: invent page numbers, invent DOIs, invent years, invent cities Format: ledger + table + order + edition + refuse + compliance Lang: English
Example Output
1. Ledger. Inventory: Harbor Dock Annals author Mira Chen note stub quay survey; River Ledger Vol 2 author UNKNOWN. DOI NONE. Page span NOT IN INPUTS. Edition CMOS 17. Section Chapter 4 Quay Notes. NoteOrder Harbor Dock Annals then River Ledger Vol 2. Lang English. Banner: not a finished bibliography; not fair-use legal advice. Forbidden: invented page numbers, DOIs, years, cities, guaranteed citation, page invent, DOI invent, year invent. 2. Footnote map. 1. Harbor Dock Annals | author Mira Chen as pasted | note stub quay survey as pasted | page NOT IN INPUTS | DOI NONE. 2. River Ledger Vol 2 | author UNKNOWN | note stub NOT IN INPUTS | page NOT IN INPUTS | DOI NONE. Publisher city not invented. Publication year not invented. 3. Note order. 1 Harbor Dock Annals then 2 River Ledger Vol 2 as pasted. No third note invented. Sequence beyond NoteOrder stays NOT IN INPUTS. 4. Edition lock. CMOS 17 as pasted. CMOS 18 note forms not used. Short-title subsequent note rules only if present in Inventory (none). 5. Refuse. Page invent: refused. DOI invent: refused. Year invent: refused. City invent: refused. Guaranteed citation: refused. 6. Compliance. Banned hits none. Format ledger+table+order+edition+refuse+compliance. Gaps: page spans, River Ledger author, DOI if any, publisher city, CMOS subsequent-note decision. Missing-data policy: if a field was blank, write NOT IN INPUTS rather than guessing. Lock any tool version named in Inputs; if unnamed, write unknown. No invented testimonials, star ratings, or press logos. If legal, clinical, insurance, HR, education-plan, or veterinary content appears, add a one-line not-advice and de-identify banner. Quote banned-word hits and cut them. End with a gaps list of five bullets the user still owes you. Character and byte caps in the job are hard; print counts when relevant. Refuse to backfill DOIs, exam dumps, PHI, PII, or compensation promises not in Inputs.