author-date style with colon separator for page numbers

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I know this sounds really simple, but I simply cannot find a style that has a colon followed by a space between the date of the source and the page number. I have tried to change existing csl files and failed miserably, despite following the instructions. Can anyone point me to an existing style that does this?

adamsmith

American Sociologialcal Association e.g.

languageservicesco

Awesome! That seems to do everything I need. Thanks very much.

languageservicesco

Hmm, looks like I spoke too soon. It does indeed have the colon separator, but it also appears to use this strange approach of reversing the order of multiple authors' names, i.e. Jones, X and Y. Smith, which I can't use. Also, it has "et al" starting with 3 authors, where the instructions from my publisher require me to use it from 4. I think I know where to make the change in the csl file for the latter, but not the former. And, like I mentioned in the original post, I have never managed to actually make changes to styles stick.

adamsmith

Which publisher/journal and is there a link to the styleguide you could post?

languageservicesco

I don't believe there is a style guide available. It is from the editors of a book to be published by Routledge. Here are the only bits I have concerning citations etc. There are some inconsistencies in it!

In-text citations
The Handbook contains no footnotes. Routledge uses Harvard system for in-text citations. For example,

Among the most important sources of information about our ancestors and neighbours is their trash (Bloggs 1982). Some scholars have therefore argued that what is discarded bears meaning (Dennett 1980: 115-6; Dennett 1998).

Please note that a colon is used to separate the date from page numbers.

References
Please provide an alphabetical list of all and only sources cited in your chapter. These should conform to the Harvard system. For example:

Jaeger, J.C. and Cook, N.G.W. (1979) Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics, 3rd edn,
London: Chapman & Hall.

Each entry must contain full publication details; do not use op. cit. or short titles referring to other entries in the bibliography.

Example of references using the Harvard system

Bannan, N. (1995) ‘Underground town planning in the UK’, unpublished thesis,
University of Cambridge.
Beale, A.J. and Collins, C.H. (eds) (1992) Safety in Industrial Microbiology and
Biotechnology, London: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Betts, P. and Diaz,T. (1991) ‘Mediated electro-chemistry: a practical solution to
biosensing’, in E.Willis (ed.) Adventures in Biosensors, London: JAI Press: 34-56.
Bickley, A.R. (1988) Septimus Severus: the later years, London: Hutchinson.
—— (forthcoming) The Roman Town of Calleva, London: Routledge.
Bickley, A.R., Cobb, S.L. and Gibbs, L.J. (1984) The Roman City, London: Routledge
& Kegan Paul.
Bird,W.R. (1957) ‘Differentiation of psychotic from non-psychotic personalities’,
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 38: 266–75; reprinted in Second Thoughts (1967), London: Heinemann; and also in E.B. Spillius (ed.) (1988) Melanie Klein Today, vol. 1, London: Routledge.
Birkey, C.W., Maruyama,T. and Fuerst, P. (1993) ‘An approach to population and
evolution genetic theory for genes in mitochrondria and chloroplasts’, Genetics, 10 (3): 513–27.
Bisset, G. (1991) Roman France, trans.D. Sheldon, London: Batsford.
Braudel, F. (1949; 2nd edn 1966) La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à
l'époque de Philippe II; trans. Sian Reynolds (1999) The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, London: Collins.
Briant,T. ‘Roman sites: an eighteenth-century view’, paper presented at Oxford
Antiquarian Society Conference on Roman sites in Northern Europe, Oxford, January 1998.
Brown, L.M. (1995) Principles of Biotechnology, 2nd edn, Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.

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Anybody else with any thoughts? As far as I can see, I need a Harvard style that uses a colon as a separator for pages, maintains the use of author initials after the surname throughout the bibliography and only uses et al from 4 authors. The post above has examples of other aspects.