First letter of the authors' name as citation

jkatrib

Hey all,
I am searching for this style or something similar, i have done some research on the site, but did not find any :
as seen in [kour88],..............
below i will detailed
one author: first 4 letters of name
two authors: first 2 letters of author1, first 2 letters of author2
three authors: first 2 letters of author1, first letter of author2, first letter of author3
four authors: first letter of each author
more than four authors: first letter of first four authors

after that two digits of the year. century-disambigution is ignored.

if the symbol is exactly the same for two references, a letter is attached.

examples:

[BiDB79] Biskup, J.; Dayal, U.; Bernstein, P.A.: Synthesizing independent database schemas. In: ACM SIGMOD 1979 Int. Conf. On Management of Data Proceedings, S. 143-151.
Could somebody help me with this,
Best regards,
Juliano

adamsmith

http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/ams_alphabetic

jkatrib

Thank you for your fast answer,
i am searching for a style more easy, always use the same method :
the first three letter of first the author plus the year as two digit.
here an example :

[Bis79] Biskup, J.; Dayal, U.; Bernstein, P.A.: Synthesizing independent database schemas. In: ACM SIGMOD 1979 Int. Conf. On Management of Data Proceedings, S. 143-151.
Any idea ?
Best Reagards,

adamsmith

the answer is the same, unfortunately.

jntbrt

Hi, I have a pretty similar question. The style needed consists of the first for letters of the author's last name, even for multiple authors. When there are multiple publications in a year, it should add a letterto the End, e.g.:

Stjepandić, J., Sommer, M., Stobrawa, S. (2022). Digital Twin: Conclusion and Future Perspectives. In: Stjepandić, J., Sommer, M., Denkena, B. (eds) DigiTwin: An Approach for Production Process Optimization in a Built Environment. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77539-1_11
--> in text: [STJE22a]

Stjepandić, J., Sommer, M., Stobrawa, S. (2022). The Commercialization of Digital Twin by an Extension of a Business Ecosystem. In: Stjepandić, J., Sommer, M., Denkena, B. (eds) DigiTwin: An Approach for Production Process Optimization in a Built Environment. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77539-1_10
--> in text: [STJE22b]

in the pages linked in http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/ams_alphabetic, there seems to be some discussions about it, but I don't understand if there is any new functionality?

bwiernik

The only currently available method for customizing the label format is using the Extra field as described at the link above

jntbrt

Hey, sorry to undig this old entry again. I am now trying to use citation-label in the extra field, but when I add a citation in my word document, it still shows another style. Is there anything else I need to do to show the correct labels?

adamsmith

with which style and how exactly are you adding citation-label? This definitely works in general.

jntbrt

The style currently set in the document is APA 7th edition. I am adding the label by choosing a source in Zotero and then adding "citation-label: Smi01" at the end of the "Extra"-field. Then I try to add the citation by clicking "Add/Edit citation in the word plugin and choosing the reference to that source. Hope that descrition helps.

adamsmith

Right, citation-label doesn't appear automatically: it's a variable in the citation style and most citation styles don't use it.
You can test with https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:din-1505-2-alphanumeric and if that works modify other styles to include the label.

jntbrt

That worked, thank you! Is using citation-label still the correct way to get to my desired citation style (first four letters of first author + year), or are there better methods now?

adamsmith

nothing new, this is still the only way to go.

jntbrt

Okay, thanks for your quick help!