American Journal of Archeology (author date) (dev) issues

JonEP

Hi,
I'm using the style American Journal of Archeology (author date) (dev) with zotero 2.0.2 and Microsoft Word 2007 on Windows 7.

When I create a bibliography for my document, the entries do not alphabetize correctly. There seem to be three or four sequential sets of alphabetically ordered entries more or less like this:

Anderson, D...
Bates, P...
Cantor, F....
Marx, K ...
Tolstoy, ....
Andrews, ...
Fallow, ...
Peterson...
Swift ...
Altieri, ...
Brown, ...
Cross, ...


I tried to find some rhyme or reason to why certain entries appeared in various places (for instance, order of entry into Zotero, belonging to a specific collection, etc.), but no luck.

any ideas? For now I've unlinked from zotero, then sorted using word. Can anyone help me get it sorted out, so to speak?

Thanks.

adamsmith

for some reason the style sorts the bibliography by the abstract variable - no idea why -
you can just fix that by finding
<sort>
<key variable="abstract"/>
<key macro="contributors"/>
<key variable="issued"/>
</sort>
and deleting
<key variable="abstract"/>

http://www.zotero.org/support/csl_simple_edits

If someone has the time to check and correct this on the repository that'd be great, I'm traveling with slow internet, so I won't touch SVN for the next couple of weeks.

ajlyon

Fixed in SVN. You should be able to update your styles soon and this will be fixed.

JonEP

Thanks that was quick work!

JonEP

I'm still having the problem, but wonder if I have perhaps not updated my styles correctly. All I did was to visit the styles repository and "install" again. Perhaps I need to remove the style from Zotero and then re-visit the styles repository and install? Or is there another process?

Thanks.

JonEP

Hmmm. I just tried closing the document, uninstalling and then re-installing the style, re-opening the document and creating a bibliography. The entries are now in the correct order. Good news. Thanks again.

JonEP

Just a minor note regarding this style. When the "item type" is "manuscript," failure to enter "place" results in an additional period in the resulting entry in the bibliography. Not sure if this would be the case, too, for other types of entries.

Thanks!