Cancer Prevention Research style fix

lauren.merlo
Hi, I am attempting to submit an article to Cancer Prevention Research and notice 2 differences between the Zotero Citation style and the style recommended by the journal. (Information on the journal style is at http://cancerpreventionresearch.aacrjournals.org/site/misc/ifora.xhtml#formatstyle with further details at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html). I would be very grateful if anyone could help me with this.

The differences I see are
1) There should be no period at the end of journal title abbreviations, as described by the journal's website "Do not use a period (full stop) at the end of the journal title or abbreviation". Zotero is currently using a period.
2) There are no publication months and days in the journal, only years. Zotero is currently using month and day information as well.

Example:
Current Zotero format:
Yousef F, Cardwell C, Cantwell MM, Galway K, Johnston BT, Murray L. The incidence of esophageal cancer and high-grade dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Am. J. Epidemiol. 2008Aug1;168(3):237-249.

This should be:
Yousef F, Cardwell C, Cantwell MM, Galway K, Johnston BT, Murray L. The incidence of esophageal cancer and high-grade dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Epidemiol 2008;168(3):237-249.

Thank you so much for any assistance!
  • adamsmith
    edited May 17, 2010
    1) http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/journal_abbreviations
    2) are you sure? - NLM style has as one of the examples:
    Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-7.

    and then states:
    As an option, if a journal carries continuous pagination throughout a volume (as many medical journals do) the month and issue number may be omitted.
    i.e. the month and day are obligatory for journals without continuous pagination and optional (but allowed) for journals with - could you confirm that the current style mangles the spacing?
  • lauren.merlo
    The spacing is definitely "mangled" in the current style in that it is lumping YearMonthDate with no spaces in between as shown in the example in the original post. I also saw that notice on NLM regarding month and issue number. I don't know if Month and Day are "allowed" for Cancer Prevention Research, but they are certainly not ever used. I went through the last several issues of the journal and not a single article cited has a month and day. All have Year;Volume:Pages.

    Thank you so much for you help and response!
  • adamsmith
    edited May 18, 2010
    OK - look in the repository for the
    American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
    style - once it shows an updated time stamp (i.e. May 17th 2010) install that (or the CAPR style - the CAPR style is just a copy under a different name)

    I've simply deleted the month and date from that style - looking at the journals is often the best way to get at what they really want and since you've done that work already...

    edit: ok - it's up now:
    http://www.zotero.org/styles/aacr/dev?install=1
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