Another ebd./ibid. post: how to amend 'Zeitschrift für Soziologie (Deutsch)' style to include ebd.?

Hi and thanks for helping.

This is the style I'd like changed [Zeitschrift für Soziologie (Deutsch)]: https://pastebin.com/cZSSDdRE

I know about the snippet and this is my best effort so far:
https://pastebin.com/xyLBzGT1

However, it's not working as intended. The in-text citation style changed from (Muller 2010: 50) to (Muller 2010, 50) and I have no idea why. It doesn't always register when to (ebd.) and the capitalization is off half of the time. I want:

-every repeated subsequent in-text citation shortened to (ebd.)
-capitalized to (Ebd.) at the beginning of a sentence
-rest of the 'Zeitschrift für Soziologie (Deutsch)' style unchanged

Is it possible? Or is there any other German language social science citation style that has great ebd. behavior?
  • edited June 26, 2023
    - This style produces "(Muller 2010: 50)" for me. but generally, that colon is set on line 330.
    - You can change the ibid behaviour with near-note-distance. If it's too far a way, it'll render a full citation again as the connection with what the ibid refers to is lost. See https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#note-distance
    - Capitalisation based on where in a sentence it is cannot be influences by CSL. However, Word etc. will do this automatically for you and capitalise it.
    - You also want to take care of ibid-with-locator, not just "ibid" in your style. See how this is generally done: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/fd230a7073dea31c74aef915360c2d873f801a16/mots.csl#L216

    if "ibid-with-locator", else-if "ibid", else "full citation"
  • Update:
    -the change of ':' to ',' is no longer an issue

    -subsequent cites with pages behave weirdly:
    IS: Lorem (Muller 2010: 11) ipsum (Muller 2010: 55).
    SHOULD BE: Lorem (Muller 2010: 11) ipsum (ebd.: 55).

    -end of paragraph after last sentence and at start of sentence should be capitalized (Ebd.) and I can't get it to work playing with ibid/ibid-with-locator/subsequent positions

    This is the most recent effort: https://pastebin.com/f3CNqtav
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