Style Error: Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Journals

huening

After updating to 2.1, I get an error in bibliographies using the "Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Journals".
The titles of articles in edited volumes end with two full stops, like here:

Fleischer, Wolfgang. 1992. Konvergenz und Divergenz von Wortbildung und Phraseologisierung.. In Jarmo Korhonen (ed.), Phraseologie und Wortbildung - Aspekte der Lexikonerweiterung, 53-65. (Linguistische Arbeiten 284). Tübingen: Niemeyer.

I have no idea how to fix this... Where do I have to look? Which line of the CSL do I have to change? How?

Thanks, Matthias

fbennett

Have you upgraded to Zotero 2.1.6, or are you running an earlier version?

huening

Just checked: it's 2.1.6

Matthias

huening

O - and I just saw that I get that error with edited volumes, too (when there is no series). Compare:

Aertsen, Henk, Mike Hannay, & Gerard Steen (eds.). 2004. Words in their place: Festschrift for J.L. Mackenzie.. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit.

Altenberg, Bengt, & Sylviane Granger (eds.). 2002. Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 7). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.

And there is another error:
with more than one author/editor, there should be no comma before the &

Matthias

fbennett

The duplicate punctuation is in the style -- the title has a suffix ".", and the container title has a prefix ".". The citation processor attempts to control for some forms of duplicate punctuation (and duplicate spaces generated by the style), but there are limits; this really needs to be fixed in the style.

I'll make some changes that I think will be correct, but we'll need to lean on you for testing, before the corrected style is pushed into the repository. Coming up in a few minutes ...

fbennett

Here is a modified copy of the style:

https://gist.github.com/953176

Download using the "raw" link, save to your desktop, and drag into Firefox to install. In a document, switch to another style, then back again to be sure the newly installed style takes effect.

Try the style with a variety of content. If you spot any problems (or if you don't!), let me know.

huening

Hi, better, but not perfect, yet. We now have another/new error...
Punctuation is okay now for books, but now journal articles miss a full stop and a space between the title of the article and the name of the journal (cf. the last three items of the little bibliography below).
And we still have that comma before the & when there are more than two authors/editors (which shouldn't be there).
Thanks a lot for your willingness to help!
Matthias


Aertsen, Henk, Mike Hannay, & Gerard Steen (eds.). 2004. Words in their place: Festschrift for J.L. Mackenzie. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit.

Altenberg, Bengt & Sylviane Granger (eds.). 2002. Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 7). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.

Aitchison, Jean. 1987. Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Anderson, Stephen R. 1992. A-Morphous Morphology. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 62). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anshen, Frank & Mark Aronoff. 1981. Morphological productivity and morphological transparencyThe Canadian Journal of Linguistics 26. 63-72.

Antal, Laszlo. 1988. Rules, Analogies, CategoriesWord 39(1). 21-27.

Aprešjan, Jurij D. 1976. Regular PolysemyLinguistics 142. 5-32.

fbennett

Let's hope this has a happy ending. :) I've changed the way items are joined in the bibliography section from using affixes to using delimiters. This is much more robust, but in the style code it makes it a little harder to identify what characters are used for particular joins, until you get used to interpreting the nesting levels.

Anyway, I've put the fresh copy under the link above. See how it works; if there are further issues (which I kind of expect, to be honest) just give a shout.

huening

Well - to be honest: this looks much worse... :-)
The annoying comma has gone, but we now miss the full stops (and spaces) after author, year, and title...
- Matthias

Aertsen, Henk, Mike Hannay & Gerard Steen (eds.).2004Words in their place: Festschrift for J.L. MackenzieAmsterdam: Vrije Universiteit.

Aitchison, Jean1987Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental LexiconOxford: Basil Blackwell.

Altenberg, Bengt & Sylviane Granger (eds.).2002Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches(Studies in Corpus Linguistics 7). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Anderson, Stephen R1992A-Morphous Morphology(Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 62). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anshen, Frank & Mark Aronoff1981Morphological productivity and morphological transparencyThe Canadian Journal of Linguistics 26. 63-72.

Antal, Laszlo1988Rules, Analogies, CategoriesWord 39(1). 21-27.

Aprešjan, Jurij D1976Regular PolysemyLinguistics 142. 5-32.

fbennett

Sorry, I hadn't tested. I'll check this out -- but no worries, we can always go back. Bear with me for a bit, be back soon.

fbennett

There we go, it should be a little happier now. Sorry about that last one, that must have been quite surprising.

huening

This looks very good! I just tested it with a longer bibliography and I don't see any errors any more. Thank you very much!!
In case I still find more problems with this style, I would like to come back. May I?

Thanks again!
Matthias

fbennett

Of course! I aim to build several styles for use in our faculty, and this was good practice for me.

adamsmith

if you want to practice - I have a bookmarked list of about 30 outstanding style requests - just say the word ;-)
But seriously, thanks for doing some of the work on styles, it's nice to have company!

huening

One more comment on this style.

If you want to use it with bibliographic entries in different languages, you will probably want to change this line:
<text variable="collection-title" text-case="title"/>
to:
<text variable="collection-title" text-case="capitalize-first"/>

The stylesheet definition wants us to capitalize the titles of series, but with e.g. German titles you would end up with something like this:
"(Studien Zur Gestaltung von Netten Bibliographischen Stilen 34)"
which is not what we want (we don't capitalize adjectives etc.).

Matthias

fbennett

A solution to this issue is in the works. If all goes well, with the next Zotero release you should be able to specify "de" in the Language field, and find that text-case="title" does not transform the field content; and that in styles with default-locale set to a non-English locale, the transform is not performed unless the item's Language field is set to "en".

(Setting text-case="sentence" is generally not recommended, because that transform often gets the capitalization wrong from proper names and abbreviations.)

huening

Sounds good! Two problems:
- I will have to add the language to all my bibliographic entries... Okay - not your problem... :-)
- What about complex multilingual situations like: an article in English in a book with a German title and a series title in German?

Matthias

fbennett

If you publish in mixed languages, you can't really avoid tagging your references for language, going forward. As systems become more precise and capable, that information becomes necessary.

Correctly handling individual fields within an item will be possible when multilingual is eventually deployed. In the multilingual development branch, we can set that information at the field level. The remainder of the programming is straightforward. Support to that level will have to wait for adoption of the multilingual branch, though, and that is some distance away.

huening

Okay - for the time being your solution sounds very acceptable (and much better than my 'work around'). The 'complex multilingual situations' I mentioned do exist, but, in my case, they are a very small minority.
- Matthias

wawnature

Please post me the finalized copy of "Unified Style Sheet for Linguistic Journals" (if any) so that I can add it to firefox/zotero. When I tried the installed style sheet on zotero 3.0b3, it has some problems.Two periods are there following the book title; and word initials are still in upper cases. Or if any thing I missed, I need help. See below:

Kelemework, Eyob. 2011. Word Formation on Gedeo: A Cushitic Language of Ethiopia.. Saarbrücken: VDM- Verlag Dr. Müller GmbH & Co.KG.

adamsmith

Frank - did you ever submit the corrected version of the style to the repository? If not, where is the most recent version of the style?

mrenwick

Adam - the corrected version seems to be at the link above, which was updated with corrections over the course of this thread. I've just installed it and it seems to solve the immediate problem of double full stops.

adamsmith

OK, the version from May 3 (converted to csl 1.0) is now up.