Style request: The EMBO Journal

MattM

Hi,
I'd like to make a request for the EMBO Journal citytion style. There is a style with that name in the Zotero Style Repository, but the style file seems to be empty and if I install it nevertheless, it is incorrect (i.e. the style is not the one used in the EMBO Journal). As far as I can tell, the Repository entry is just a placeholder.

Does anybody know what would be the most closely related style that is already available?

Thanks!
Matt

adamsmith

the EMBO reports style just uses Nature - if that's not correct
http://www.zotero.org/support/requesting_styles

MattM

No, unfortunately the EMBO Journal uses a different style than EMBO reports/Nature. For example, the citations in the text are (Author, Year) and the bibliography is in alphabetical order, with the year in parenthesis after the authors, not at the end...
Here's the "guide for authors": http://www.nature.com/emboj/about/authors.html

I'll try to find a simila style that's already available, but it would be great if the style could eventually be added!

adamsmith

see my link above - if you (or someone else who is interested) can take the time to put together a comprehensive list of differences (probably Nature is still a good place to start) someone will make the style. Otherwise it's pretty unlikely.

MattM

OK, here's what I got:

The closest style I could find is Cell Journal. Here's a list of examples for comparison and a list of all diferences that I could find. Since the authors guides don't specify web site citations, and I couldn't find them in the journals, I don't know how they should look like - no change from Cell is probably the safest bet for now.

Author's Guides:
Cell: http://www.cell.com/authors#gen_specs

EMBO: http://www.nature.com/emboj/about/authors.html#a3.8

Style used in EMBO:
Reference in text:
(Author, Year)
(Author & Author, Year)

or, if more than two authors:
(Author et al, Year)
[no dot after “et al”!]

For multiple citations at once:
(Ferrier & Lunkes, 2003; Wiersdorff et al, 2000)

Style for reference list:
- No numbering
- in alphabetical order, then chronologically
- with the authors' surnames and initials inverted
- et al only for more than 20 authors
- Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c after the year of publication
- The name of each journal should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus and italicized


Article in a periodical:
Cell:
Sondheimer, N., and Lindquist, S. (2000). Rnq1: an epigenetic modifier of protein function in yeast. Mol. Cell 5, 163–172.

EMBO:
Akhmedkhanov A, Toniolo P, Zeleniuch-Jacquotte A, Koenig KL, Shore RE (2002) Aspirin and lung cancer in women. Br J Cancer 87: 49-53

Differences:
- Remove all dots, leave only the one after the title
- Add colon after volume
- Set title in italic
- Set volume in bold

Article in a book:
Cell:
King, S.M. (2003). Dynein motors: Structure, mechanochemistry and regulation. In Molecular Motors, M. Schliwa, ed. (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH), pp. 45–78.

EMBO:
Sambrook J, Fritsch E & Maniatis T (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbour Press, Cold Spring Harbour, New York, USA

Differences:
- As with journal articles: no dots except after title
- Sequence of items after title (separated by commata as shown):
[Publisher], [Place], [Country]

adamsmith

OK - I have this bookmarked, but will be probably weeks rather than days until I get to it, so if there are any other takers that'd be great

MattM

Thanks!

adamsmith

ok, at it now, will be done soon.

adamsmith

OK - there is now a pretty much correct EMBO Journal style in the repository - should show up soon (as "EMBO Journal" rather than "The EMBO Journal")
I say pretty much because their citation guide is a total mess, so I had to use some guesswork about what they want - but everything they're consistent about is now correct.

MattM

Brilliant, thank you very much! I'll make a post here if there's anything that doesn't look like it does in the EMBO journal ;)

MattM

The style looks very good! There's one (very minor) deviation from the "original": in the bibliography, the colon after the issue number should be bold (same as the issue number itself, which already is bold).

I had a look at the code, I guess the problem is that the group ":" is not affected by the font style/weight of the preceeding "volume" element. I pasted the affected part of the style code below (from the bibliography section), I guess you'll know the best way to get that colon to be bold.

<group class="container" delimiter=": " prefix=" " suffix="">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text variable="container-title" form="short" font-style="italic"/>
<text variable="volume" font-weight="bold"/>
</group>

Dani_Bodor

I have one more deviation from the current version.
When there are two different authors with the same surname (but different initials) and the publication is from the same year, it gives the names of the first two authors and no alphabetized year.
e.g.: (Wang, Brown, et al, 2004) and (Wang, Wang, et al, 2004).
The correct (EMBO) way would be (Wang et al, 2004a) and (Wang et al, 2004b), even though it is not the same person

adamsmith

ok fixed both, should be up on the repository soon - update by re-installing once you see the new timestamp.

Dani_Bodor

Ok
I'm really being a nag, but I found another difference with published EMBO articles...
"et al" should be in italics. I know that this is not mentioned in the guidelines of the EMBO journal, but if I look at any of their publications, it always is.

Thanks a lot!

adamsmith

yeah, that I knew, but it's not currently possible in Zotero. Will be soon, though.

Bionatsci

"et al" should be in italics

The best workaround for this currently is to use search and replace in the word processor just before submitting your manuscript.

adamsmith

OK, the updated style (including et al in italics) is now on the new csl 1.0 repository at https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles and will eventually move to citationstyles.org

fbennett

IIRC, embo was affected by our recent accessed date kerfufl.

adamsmith

oh drat. I forgot those changes weren't on github yet. uhm - I'll fix the access macro on github so we can just not change any of the styles that have been updated on github. Will pay more attention with other styles.