Style Error[Animal Conservation]

rkmckee

There is a 2018 format version for Animal Conservation available in Zotero but there appears to be discrepancies with current guidelines. For example,
-et al should be in italics
-Zotero is adding first initial before authors with the same last name (ie Adam Smith and Jane Smith are referenced as J. Smith or A. Smith) but this is not what the journal does. They simply do Smith and the year regardless as long as they are not the same year.

There is an EndNote available for download on the journal website but not Zotero. Ihttps://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/14691795/about/author-guidelines

adamsmith

If you're aware of more differences, a list would help.
Also, do you have an example article that shows the second behavior, i.e. 2003a, b for two different Smiths (or other authors with the same last name)?

rkmckee

Those are the two that jumped out at me but I am not sure if there are more. That was why I was hoping maybe the end note format could be adapted easily to Zotero, in case there are more I am unaware of.

Here is an example that shows two different authors named Smith with different years. https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.12834

damnation

There was a whole bunch more errors.
I've adapted the style. Please test and let us know if you spot any other issues.

https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/e35cc7b6bc1829755ff55fc342641641094dabe4/animal-conservation.csl

stephs94

Hi there. I was wondering whether the most recent citation style for Animal Conservation is up to date? I'm trying to produce a bibliography at the end of my document, but it is listing it in chronological order rather than alphabetical. The current guidelines from the journal website (https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/14691795/about/author-guidelines) are:

"In the list, references must be arranged first alphabetically under author(s) name(s) and then in chronological order if several papers by the same author(s) are cited.

Examples
Lemelin, P. (1996a). Relationships between hand morphology and feeding strategies in small-bodied prosimians. Am. J. phys. Anthrop. (Suppl.) 22, 148.

Lemelin, P. (1996b). The evolution of manual prehensility in primates: a comparative study of prosimians and didelphid marsupials. PhD thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Pianka, E. R. (1978). Evolutionary ecology. 2nd edn. New York: Harper & Row.

Whitear, M. (1992). Solitary chemosensory cells. In Fish chemoreception: 103-125. Hara, T. J. (Ed.). London: Chapman & Hall."

Thanks in advance!

damnation

Thank you for your error report. Oddly enough I made that change in the last update we released in May/2024, so something must've shown me to make that change, but obviously that was not correct. I've submitted a fix.
You can use this:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/9bf93dc1d556d676216c71dd0ef1a64adcad2f3d/animal-conservation.csl

stephs94

Amazing thank you so much! I'm not sure if this is another style error or just on my end, but is it also possible to include that the journal titles should be in italics, as well as book titles?

damnation

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/3bfc25bf8ade4c9509de5e05b7e36ffdff5fe109/animal-conservation.csl