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Citation Styles: Missing features for "egxotic" style

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    • CommentAuthordomas
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
     
    My faculty has quite original citation style.

    Citation is in format [AfnYyC], where:
    Afn is...
    1) when only one author, then Afn - first three letters of last name. (e.g. [Afn05])
    2) when two authors, then Afn - first letter for each of their last names. (e.g. [AB05])
    3) when three authors, then Afn - first letter for each of their last names. (e.g. [ABC05])
    4) when more than three authors, then Afn - first letter for each of their last names followed by + sign. (e.g. [ABC+05])
    Yy - short year format (no problem for this one).
    C - "a", "b", "c" etc. - used when AfnYy is non-unique (e.g. [Afn05a] and [Afn05b]) - no problem here as well.


    So as you can see, it is impossible to create this style due to CSL limitations.
    Solutions anyone?

    My thoughts:
    1) I would upvote for IF statement for author-count. "+" sign problem could be solved either using IF author-count or "localizing"/changing "et al." value to "+".
    2) substring method or attribute for author.

    Let me know if it is somehow possible. Looking forward to your ideas. Thanks.
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      CommentAuthorRintze
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2009
     
    A short-term hack would be to use an unused field in Zotero (e.g. "Extra"), and use it to store the author-key part (Afn, AB, ABC, or ABC+), this you would need to do by hand (or you could hack together some script). Then modify the style to use this field instead of the author-yield, and I guess you're set.
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    @domas: i have the same problem as you have. I wanted to ask you if you already came up with a script as mentioned by rintze?

    If yes, I would be thankful if you could share it.

    Thanks a lot,
    Marc
    • CommentAuthorbdarcus
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2009 edited
     
    One longer-term solution is to point out to people that define these styles is that they make no sense in the 21st century, and suggest they change them. These kinds of rules are unreasonably difficult to implement, with absolutely no benefit for readers.

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