Style Request: Psychoanalytic Quarterly

This journal, which is published by Taylor & Francis, uses what appears to be its own unique version of the Harvard system. I have found no Harvard style in the Zotero repository that exactly matches this Journal's style. The closest match I seem to have found is for UCL Institute of Education - Harvard, but it has many discrepancies.

Here is the link to the author instructions for Psychoanalytic Quarterly:

https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=upaq20

If you scroll down, it has a link to the References instructions.

And here is the link, found on the above web page, to its reference style:

https://files.taylorandfrancis.com/ref_UPAQ.pdf?_gl=1*2o96h9*_ga*OTUwNDA4NzExLjE3MTA4MTU5Mzg.*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTcxMTIzNDIzNi4yLjEuMTcxMTIzNDY2MC4wLjAuMA..*_gcl_au*NTYwNDg0ODY2LjE3MTA4MTU5Mzc.&_ga=2.190659374.407246591.1711234236-950408711.1710815938

Online ISSN:2167-4086
Print ISSN:0033-2828

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly style instructions are confusing in that they say to use the word "and" between authors names in text, whether in cited in parenthesis, such as "(Spam and Spam 2024)", or as part of the narrative, such as "Spam and Spam (2024), but they say to use an ampersand (&) in the reference list. They also say to use "and," without a comma, for three authors in text, as in "(Spam, Eggs and Spam 2024) but "et al.", with a period, for four or more authors, so that "(Spam, Eggs, Sausage and Spam 2024)" would be "(Spam et al. 2024)". They do not use a comma between the author's name and the year in text. In the reference list, they say to list all authors of an article, even if the citation in text involves "et al.", and although the instructions do not say this, they put the authors' names in upper case. The journal does not use a comma before the ampersand. If multiple works by the same author (or group of authors) are cited, they use a horizontal line to indicate that the author is the same:

SPAM, A. & EGGS, B. (2023)
_______ (2024)

Other interesting things are that, in the reference list, journal titles are abbreviated. The journal uses sentence case for journal articles and book chapters but title case for books and other full length works (e.g., films, record albums). Books, journal titles, and other full length works are italicized, but journal issue number is not in italics. Names of editors and translators go after the book name. Page numbers for journal articles and book chapters go at the end of the citation, but for book chapters, the abbreviation "pp." is used. Journal citations are to have the volume number but not the issue number, even though almost every journal that I read regularly now seems to want the issue number too. The instructions are also to use a colon, not a comma, to separate the journal volume number from the article's page numbers. Although the instructions do not say so, the journal is now using the DOI for an entry whenever one is available, but the usage from article to article is inconsistent.

Adding to the confusion is that copy editing for this journal is very inconsistent. For example, although the instructions are to use "and" and not "&" in text for works with multiple authors, many articles use the ampersand. Sometimes works with four or more authors have all names listed in text, even though the instructions are to use "et al." Although the instructions page says not to use issue numbers for journal articles, some authors use them. And some authors use a colon between the volume (and issue) number and the page numbers while others use a comma. Also, some authors are using DOIs, and some are not. And some authors are including full journal titles even though the instructions are to abbreviate them.

And one more thing: Because this is a psychoanalytic journal, the reference list does not use the full name of the work, which is "The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud,", edited and translated by James Strachey. Instead, they abbreviate the work as "S. E.", in italics, followed by a comma, a space, the volume number, and the page number. I will give an example below.

My opinion is that it would make sense to include the issue numbers and the DOIs whenever these exist because their inclusion is increasingly a standard practice and because the journal seems not to object.

There are no clear examples in the journal instructions for citations of films, songs, and record albums, a matter of importance to me because I cite such media regularly. There are also very limited instructions for online publications, also a major issue. I suspect that they use some version of the Harvard system, but there is no clarity about this.

Here are examples of the citations that Zotero requests, as I think they should be, given the journal's instructions:

In-Text Citations:

(Campbell and Pederson 2007)
(Mares 2001)

Reference List:

Campbell, J. L. & Pedersen, O. K. (2007). The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success. Comp. Pol. Stud., 40(3), 307–332. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414006286542

(Journal title above should be in italics, but I cannot figure out how to format this here.)

Mares, I. (2001). Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers? In Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, ed. P. A. Hall & D. Soskice. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 184-213.

(Book title above should be in italics, but I cannot figure out how to format this here.)

Citations of Freud:

In text:

(Freud 1911)

Reference List:

Freud, S. (1911). Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning. S.E. 12:213-226.

(Once again, I cannot put "S. E." in italics.)

Here is a link to the journal webpage, from which you can link to several recent open-access publications:

https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/upaq20

I cannot paste these articles in because this page does not permit me to attach pdfs.
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