Automatically Superscript Citations in Word 2007

hanish

I've tried searching but no luck.. Is there a way to automatically have zotero insert citation numbers as superscripted in word 2007 (I know I can manually edit each citation). I need vancouver style citations but with superscripts not (x). Can I edit the style like I can with Endnote?

This is the only thing stopping me from ditching endnote completely..

Rintze

You can change the style with a text editor. Some info:

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/creating_citation_styles
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/csl_syntax_summary#formatting

So these lines:
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<text variable="citation-number"/>
</layout>
should become:
<layout delimiter="; ">
<text variable="citation-number" vertical-align="sup"/>
</layout>

hanish

Thanks for the reply... that seems to superscript it, but it's still using the parentheses, but now around the superscript. I tried to remove them but then Zotero tells me it's not a valid CSL file. :(

Rintze

Can you try this file:

http://gist.github.com/raw/90150/e34437061dcc4215b84f5c4328a19824b071b821/vancouver-superscript.csl

That one works for me (I made the exact changes as outlined above).

heromyth

Yes, the citation-number is superscripted. However, the prefix and suffix hasn't been done. See these:

<layout prefix="[" suffix="]" delimiter="; ">
<text variable="citation-number" vertical-align="sup"/>
</layout>

Thanks for more help.

Rintze

I based my style on http://www.zotero.org/styles/vancouver, which doesn't include those lines. You can just remove the entire prefix/suffix-part though:
<layout prefix="[" suffix="]" delimiter="; ">then becomes
<layout delimiter="; ">

hanish

This works great. Now the last tweak needed (I believe this is where the delimiter part comes in) is that when I use 2 citations for one statement they are separated as:
Statement1; 2 (just the numbers are superscripted the ; is regular font)

but I'd like it to be
Statement1, 2 (all superscript)

I hope that makes sense. Thanks for all your help.. This is saving me so much time in working through references!

Rintze

Ah, I see. I mistakenly assumed that the delimiter would also become superscripted in the code I outlined earlier. I guess this then should work correctly:

<layout delimiter=", " vertical-align="sup">
<text variable="citation-number"/>
</layout>

hanish

That works perfectly! Thanks so much once again!!

kaarthur

Hi Hanish,

Is it possibe to put this style up in the style section as I need exacty the same style for my work, and I am struggling with the code.

Rintze

Is there a certain guide that describes this variant of Vancouver? That might make the style easier to identify in the Style Repository (the alternative would be to name this variant "Vancouver - superscript" or something similar).

kaarthur

The vancouver-superscript is a version preferred by medical journals.
The main difference being that the in text citations are in supersciprt without brackets of parenthesis and that a coma "," is used to separate two references.

Good explanation:
www.fgdp.org.uk/pdf/vancouver.pdf


From the University of Surrey:

In the Vancouver style, a consecutive number is allocated to each reference as it is cited for the first time in the
text of the assignment. This number becomes the unique identifier of that source and if the source is cited again
the same number is repeated. Numbers are inserted to the right of commas and full stops, and to the left of
colons and semi-colons. Multiple sources can be listed at a single reference point. The numbers are then
separated by commas and consecutive numbers are joined with a hyphen. Vancouver uses superscript
numbers, or standard numbers in brackets, in the text, e.g. 1-4,10,12 or (1-4,10,12).

The references are listed at the end of your assignment in the numerical order in which they are cited in the text.

The main advantage of the Vancouver style is that the text reads more easily, without the intrusion of in-text
citations which can be difficult to keep brief. The reader can also check the references as they read through the
text, without having to search through the list alphabetically for the first author of a particular reference.

kaarthur

Thank you very much for your help Rintze

Rintze

So according to that guide both options are valid (numbers in brackets or as superscripts). I'll just name the variant "Vancouver-superscript" then to avoid any confusion.

P.S. I added the style. It may take some time for it to show up though in the Style Repository.

kaarthur

I look forward to trying the new style. Once again thanks for all your help.
K

kaarthur

That was great Rintze,

I have been using the new superscript style and it works beautifully.

K

hanish

Sorry, was out of town a few days, thanks for troubleshooting with us and uploading it Rintze. I'm surprised nobody uploaded this before, it's a common style in medical journals.

kaarthur, the only thing to watch out for is the number of authors in the references, as that sometimes varies by journal,ie how many authors before "et al" is used etc. This can be customized in the csl file.

heromyth

It's really perfect without the prefix string. I also need the prefix and suffix string superscripted , so the layout format is like this:

<layout prefix="[" suffix="]" delimiter="," vertical-align="sup">
<text variable="citation-number"/>
</layout>

However, I can't get what I want. In Word, just the citation-number is superscripted; in OOo, just the citation-number and the suffix string are superscripted.

I tried to check extensions\zotero@chnm.gmu.edu\chrome\zotero\content\zotero\xpcom\csl.js and Zotero-Word-Plugin to find out what happened. But failed.

Thanks for any help.

Rintze

That's outside my realm of expertise.

fbennett

@heromyth,

It's no immediate comfort, but the new CSL processor I'm working on will handle this correctly. Ranging will also work, so with numbered references you should also be able to get something like [1]-[4] and [1],[3],[5]-[7], superscripted. It's not quite done yet, but it's in the works (I'm building this part of the thing this week and next), and if all goes well (touch wood), the processor will eventually be deployed in Zotero.

Small steps ...

heromyth

Thanks fbennett!
After doing some modifications to \chrome\zotero\content\zotero\xpcom\csl.js, I got what I want, which is to format the prefix and suffix in the citation layout.

Here is my patch (More tests needed!):

================================
*** /chrome/zotero/content/zotero/xpcom/csl.js Thu Mar 19 12:19:44 2009
--- /chrome/zotero/content/zotero/xpcom/csl.js Thu Apr 23 17:17:14 2009
@@ -2613,9 +2613,16 @@
this.closeFormatting += formattedString.closeFormatting;
this.closePunctuation += formattedString.closePunctuation;
}
+
+ if(haveAppended && suffix !== false)
+ {
+ var oldCloseFormatting = this.closeFormatting;
+ this.closeFormatting = "";
+ this.append(suffix, null, true);
+ this.string += oldCloseFormatting;
+ }
+

- // append suffix, if we didn't before
- if(haveAppended && suffix !== false) this.append(suffix, null, true);

return haveAppended;
}
@@ -2842,7 +2849,8 @@
}
}

- this.string += addBefore+string;
+ //this.string += addBefore+string;
+ this.string = addBefore+ this.string + string;

if(element && element.@suffix.length()) {
this.append(element.@suffix.toString(), null, true);
================================

The debug output before using this patch:
================================
<updateCitationsResponse>
<citations>
<citation index="0">
<text>{\rtf [\super 1\super0 ]}</text>
</citation>
<citation index="1">
<text>{\rtf [\super 2\super0 ]}</text>
</citation>
<citation index="2">
<text>{\rtf [\super 3-8,2\super0 ]}</text>
</citation>
</citations>
</updateCitationsResponse>
================================

after patching:
================================
<updateCitationsResponse>
<citations>
<citation index="0">
<text>{\rtf \super [1]\super0 }</text>
</citation>
<citation index="1">
<text>{\rtf \super [2]\super0 }</text>
</citation>
<citation index="2">
<text>{\rtf \super [3-8,2]\super0 }</text>
</citation>
</citations>
</updateCitationsResponse>
================================

yingfengli

I cannot find /chrome/zotero/content/zotero/xpcom/csl.js, where is it? I works on Zotero 1.5b2, firefox 3.0.10.

fbennett said:
It's no immediate comfort, but the new CSL processor I'm working on will handle this correctly. Ranging will also work, so with numbered references you should also be able to get something like [1]-[4] and [1],[3],[5]-[7], superscripted. It's not quite done yet, but it's in the works (I'm building this part of the thing this week and next), and if all goes well (touch wood), the processor will eventually be deployed in Zotero.
I hope he had done. Thanks

adamsmith

the csl.js is part of zotero.jar,
which you should be able to find with a regular search - (it's somewhere in the extension folder of your firefox, where exactly depends on your system.
I wouldn't suggest you try to patch it unless you at least know more or less what you are doing.

yingfengli

thank to adamsmith. I dare not modify zotero.jar.
I I works on Zotero 1.5b2, firefox 3.0.10, and Chinese-Std-GBT7714-Numeric.csl. It requires the prefix and suffix string [] superscripted also. I use Zotero for my master paper which should be completed up to May 15. any suggestion?

yingfengli

I "soluted" it Using a deceptive step. After all citation were made, use "search and repalce" function of word processor to relpace all normal "[" ("]" follow suit) with "[" supercripted.

asahiko

It looks like this superscript issue has been fixed now. I'm using Zotero 2.0b7.2 + WinWord 3.0a2 without problems.

Citations like: 2,4-6)
where all the characters including the comma and the parenthesis are superscripted (style as required by the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics) now works without problems.

A big thank you for the fix!

victorxstc

But These nice styles and maybe the Zotero engine itself, have a serious bug:

Those codes ONLY appliy to when MULTIPLE-citations are being added at once. However when the user adds a citation, and afterward finds and adds another citation exactly beside the previous one, unlike Endnote, Zoterro can't understand to merge those fields into one, and then re-apply the Style to the newly created bigger field.

Does someone knows how to fix it?

Additional details are described here:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9199/vancouver-style-a-comma-between-two-neighbor-but-separated-fields-needs-automerging-those-fields/

thank you very much :)

asahiko

victorxstc, don't "add" a new field; try "editing" the existing field, using the second button on the toolbar.

victorxstc

Thank you asahiko :) This works just fine :)

yingfengli

* asahiko
* CommentTimeSep 25th 2009


"It looks like this superscript issue has been fixed now. I'm using Zotero 2.0b7.2 + WinWord 3.0a2 without problems."
It's a very good news! But I'm using openoffice 3.1 where the citations and ] are superscripted, but [ is normal size. It seems that the problem was solved uncompletely. More ever, unlike winword, openoffice cannot use find and replace to make [ superscripted. Any help?

adamsmith

More ever, unlike winword, openoffice cannot use find and replace to make [ superscripted. Any help?

that's incorrect.
In Ooo, use search, click on more options and modify the replace term using the format button on the bottom left. Superscript is in the "position" tab of the format window.