An unexpected error ocurred while installing new citation style

audrey-b

Hello,

Reposting since I didn't get much traction the first time. :)

I am having trouble installing a new style. I edited the APA 7th edition .csl to italicize 'et al.'. I did this in the Zotero styles editor and tried to save it as a csl. It saved with an .xul extension so I just deleted the extension and got the error 'An unexpected error occurred while installing...'. I tried to save it a different way in text edit and got the same issue. I validated the .csl here: https://validator.citationstyles.org/ and everything looks good. I'm not sure what the issue is.

I'm using the Zotero 6.0.37 Desktop app.

Can you please help with this? Thanks!

damnation

Please don't make new posts for the same issue.
You're absolutely fine with bumping a thread after a reasonable time.
In your request you didn't include the style, so nobody can help really. And I guess then it also fell through the cracks.
Upload your style to pastebin.com, share the URL.

audrey-b

Okay I apologize, I wasn't aware. I'll bump it next time. I tried pasting the style originally, but the post was too long to share. Here is the style:
https://pastebin.com/hG4t3K1D

adamsmith

A little hard to say why this didn't install, but you should change the style title and ID so it doesn't try to overwrite the built-in APA style, which may be used for other things.

audrey-b

Okay thanks. I changed the style title and ID, but I still get the same error.

Would it be possible for you to add this style to the repository so I could try adding it this way? https://www.zotero.org/styles/

It is somewhat crucial for me to have this part italicized in text. In the meantime, I will look for another existing style that includes this.

dstillman

Can you provide a Debug ID for trying to install?

audrey-b

Once I enabled debug output logging the error no longer occured and I was able to install my style. Thanks!