Etiquette for sharing modified styles

Carmaux

Hello,

I have modified a version of the APA 7th Edition template (created by Brenton M. Wiernik) to combine "no ampersand" and "no intials" into one template. I also fixed an issue where multiple translators (and other cases) were still using the ampersand symbol.
I wanted to know if it would be fine to name myself as author of this modified version, while naming the original creator of the style.
I see most templates of APA in the style repository still name Wiernik as creator although they are clearly modifications done by someone else, that is why I am asking.

Thanks!

adamsmith

Listing yourself is fine, yes. We don't have strong norms around this, but the standard is to always list yourself, to keep original contributors listed for minimal changes and for anything bigger just list the template with yourself as the single author.
That said, I don't think we'd take the style for the repository -- the number of APA variants is already out of control. Brenton does share a bunch of further APA versions via his Github and you're more than welcome to do the same.

We would take the ampersand fixes on secondary contributors, for the no ampersand style, though.

Carmaux

That's helpful, thanks! So for a minimal changes I would list myself and original contributor, is that right? I am not sure how to read the "always list yourself part," I would be combining code from two different templates plus the fix.

Also, where should I share the fix for the no-ampersand version?

bwiernik

Please submit a PR to the CSL style GitHub repo. If you want to submit the no initials/no ampersand version to my zotero-tools GitHub repo, I’d host it there (but personally I would strongly recommend following APA style and including the initials/additional author names).