New citation style: FU Berlin_MIM

MLuehring

I just created a new citation style and imported it to zotero. It is called FU Berlin_MIM. There are just two little things I just do not understand and which I cannot change. I will give an example:

Saar, Martin (2002): �Wem gehört das kollektive Gedächtnis? Ein sozialphilosophischer Ausblick auf Kultur, Multikulturalismus und Erinnerung�, in: Echterhoff, Gerald; Assmann, Jan; Saar, Martin (eds.) Kontexte und Kulturen des Erinnerns: Maurice Halbwachs und das Paradigma des kollektiven Gedächtnisses. Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft pp. 267-278.

1. I don´t understand why the question marks are there..there are supposed to be quotations marks (" ")
2. I want to put a comma between publisher (UVK Verlagsgesellschaft) and pp...how can a do this? I tried this: <text macro="publisher" suffix=","/>
but then, if there is a bibliography without pages, the bibliography ends with a comma and not with a fullstop.
Thanks

adamsmith

1. You probably use code that csl/xml doesn't allow? I don't think you can do something like prefix=""" (i.e. with a quotation mark in the prefix). You could use quote="true", but then the comma will go inside the quotation mark. Otherwise you have to use xml code for the type of quotation marks you want. (look it up on Wikipedia its looks something like this &111; - I don't know the number)

2. Use groups:
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="publisher"/>
<text macro="pages"/>
</group>

Edit: In general it helps if you post your code somewhere if you need help with it gist.github.com is a good way - people can just look at it without downloading it and you don't even need to register.

MLuehring

Thanks for your help..but I am not really getting it..
For instance, the style "harvard reference format 7" is "handling" the quotations marks exactly how I want them to be, but I don´t know which part of the harvard style I have to copy...
Example:
Allier Montaño, Eugenia (2008): „Lugar de memoria:¿un concepto para el análisis de las luchas memoriales? El caso de Uruguay y su pasado reciente“. In: Cuadernos del CLAEH. Vol. 96-97 (No. 1-2), pp. 87-109.

Thanks

adamsmith

<macro name="title">
<choose>
<if type="book">
<text variable="title" font-style="italic"/>
</if>
<else>
<text variable="title" prefix="„" suffix="“"/>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>
this is the relevant section of the harvard 7 style. It's likely that the smart quotes (in prefix="„" suffix="“") don't work like that and that you'd have to replace them by code.
The code is &#UNICODENUMBER; where UNICODENUMBER is the decimal Unicode for the symbol as you can find it e.g. here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark_glyphs
so the low double curved quote left would be & #8222; without the space after the ampersand.