Bug in cell style

Dani_Bodor
If there are only 2 authors, the first time you reference to it the result is (Person1 & Person2, YearX). Every subsequent time you reference to the same paper you get (Person1 et al., YearX).
I expect this is a little bug, because it doesnt seem likely that it is supposed to be this way, and i have never seen this in publications

I would like to have a fixed version of the cell journal (or, if it is not a bug, a version that does not do this). Should be easy to do...

thanks!
  • adamsmith
    thanks, fixed on the repository, which should update soon - once you see the new timestamp next to the style update by re-installing it.
  • Dani_Bodor
    Hi there, really great! Thanks!
    One more little problem. it is the same or similar to the problem i had stated before for the EMBO style in this topic:
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/11926/style-request-the-embo-journal/#Item_13

    The problem is with multiple references to the same name, same year. I currently get this:
    (Pasini, Bracken, and Helin, 2004; Pasini, Bracken, Jensen, et al., 2004; Pasini et al., 2008, 2010)
    whereas it should be this:
    (Pasini et al, 2004a, 2004b, 2008, 2010).

    This is also true if it 2 different people with the same last name (but separate initials). Thanks again, in advance!
  • adamsmith
    Dani - happy to change this - where do you get the info on what's correct for cell, though? Are you looking at specific articles or do you have a style guide - I couldn't find anything useful on their author page.
  • Dani_Bodor
    I know from experience after having read many cell articles :)
    And i did check it in specific references where i knew that this problem would exist, before posting.
  • adamsmith
    OK - good enough for me - it's changed and should show up soon.
  • walmark
    Don't want to start a new thread, but want to ask a question re: Cell style.

    Is the order of multiple in text references arranged in any way? Publication year? Alphabetical?

    The reason I ask is because I've been using it for writing my thesis, and it seems that the order in text is simply the same as the order I used to add several references to the multiple citation list! I had to go manually several times, delete them, and add them in the correct order that they should be displayed. Is this the way it's supposed to work? Or should they somehow be arranged automatically?

    Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    if you can find out for me how it _should_ be ordered I'm happy to put that into the style.
  • walmark
    I couldn't find anything on Cell style.

    However, I found a style with very similar citation scheme - Molecular Biology of the Cell:
    http://www.molbiolcell.org/misc/ifora.shtml

    They clearly state that their in text references should be in chronological order, and the layout looks identical to Cell press. I will try to find this one in Zotero and use it for my work.
  • adamsmith
    sorry, I'll only change this if we can at least confirm it from existing Cell articles - journal styles differ on trivial details.
  • walmark
    Haha, I completely understand.

    What I was hoping for (as I can't seem to find it in the style repository) is that perhaps you could create a separate style, namely one for Molecular Biology of the Cell based on the reference instructions I posted. Would that be ok? (not changing the Cell style but making another one instead)?
  • adamsmith
    sure - please open a new thread - link to it from here so I see it - and please make sure there are no other differences - and if there are, please list them as described here:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/requesting_styles
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