SAA Newspaper style

jennifer_melcher

Hoping someone can help me figure out how to edit the SAA style guide to address newspapers.
According to SAA Newspapers should be cited as follows
(Weekly Missouri Courier [WMC], 7 July 1838:[page numbers, if available]) Note: After first mention, simply use WMC with date (day/month/year format) and page. Also see Subsection 3.12.12.
Currently in the Zotero SAA style it just gives the Full name and the year, not the date, even though the full date is in the entry.
Thanks!

damnation

SAA refers to which style? Please include a link to the guidelines so we can help you faster, also.

jennifer_melcher

Thanks - Society for American Archaeology - Style guide is here.
https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-publications/style-guide/saa-style-guide_english_updated_2021_final08023c15928949dabd02faafb269fb1c.pdf?sfvrsn=c1f41c1b_2

Also realized there's a similar issue with personal communication

damnation

I think you should enter "Weekly Missour Courier" into the author field, in single-field mode.

Apart from that I made some edits.

https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/e8f09971379d2b33089ad24074856ef84bc4ba98/society-for-american-archaeology.csl

cara.kubiak

Hello, thanks for the discussion so far, I am having this same problem with the SAA style as well--

I tried using the edited style provided above, but this gives me the date in the wrong order (Month, day, year instead of Year, Month, day), comma placed incorrectly, and leaving off the page number.

Example--with the above customized style I am getting:
(Panama City Pilot March 26, 1908)

When it should be:
(Panama City Pilot, 26 March 1908:1)

It does say "day-month-year" in the code, so not sure why this is coming out this way, but I am very inexperienced in coding! Has there been any further insight into this?

damnation

Dates get localised and there is a difference between how British and US American English present those. Switch the language.

cara.kubiak

Thank you for the reply!

I have tried switching the language from US to British and restarting, and this style still gives the dates in the order of month, day, year. Is there anything else you can think of to try? Thanks

cara.kubiak

Hello, just pinging this thread again to see if anybody has had any success yet with correcting the newspaper citation outputs for SAA style, and if they would be willing to share what works.

With the customized style above, I am still getting dates in the wrong order and no page number included.

Thanks