Add "ibid." to style

sdruskat

Hi everyone,

sorry to bother you with a problem a lot of people have discussed already, but forum search didn't quite output any solution for me.

I've adapted my own style for my MA thesis from ASA, and I cannot get my head round how to include ibid.s into my citations.

Here's the citation part of my csl. Sorry it's such a long listing. I've put in the ibid part where I think it should go (in the citation section) but haven't changed anything in the macros. Perhaps I should've?

Please bear with me, I know it's a newbie query. Any help would be MUCH appreciated.

<citation>
<option name="et-al-min" value="4"/>
<option name="et-al-use-first" value="1"/>
<option name="et-al-subsequent-min" value="3"/>
<option name="et-al-subsequent-use-first" value="1"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-year-suffix" value="true"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-names" value="true"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-givenname" value="true"/>
<option name="collapse" value="year"/>
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<if position="ibid-with-locator">
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase" suffix="."/>
<text macro="citation-locator" prefix=", "/>
</if>
<else-if position="ibid">
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase" suffix="."/>
</else-if>
<else>
<group delimiter=": ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="year-date"/>
</group>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>
</else>
</layout>
</citation>

Many thanks!

fbennett

This should help: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/csl_syntax_summary

You're missing the "choose" tags that need to go around the conditional. The link above shows where they should go.

sdruskat

Thanks, that was it! D'uh ;-)!

For others who might come across the same query, here's what my citation section looks like now:

<citation>
<option name="et-al-min" value="4"/>
<option name="et-al-use-first" value="1"/>
<option name="et-al-subsequent-min" value="3"/>
<option name="et-al-subsequent-use-first" value="1"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-year-suffix" value="true"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-names" value="true"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-givenname" value="true"/>
<option name="collapse" value="year"/>
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<!--
==========================
This is the start of the ibid. part
==========================
-->
<choose>
<if position="ibid-with-locator">
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase" suffix=".: "/>
<text variable="locator"/>
</if>
<else-if position="ibid">
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase" suffix="."/>
</else-if>
<else>
<group delimiter=": ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="year-date"/>
</group>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>
</else>
</choose>
<!--
=========================
This is the end of the ibid. part
=========================
-->
</layout>
</citation>

This outputs:
First: (Biber et al. 2004: 241)
Subsequent: (Biber et al. 2004: 241)
Ibid: (ibid.)
Ibid-with-locator: (ibid.: 241)