New citation style - please add to the repository

Mykhailo Shevchuk · July 23, 2011

This is a DSTU GOST 7.1:2006 (Ukrainian standard) citation style especially useful for PhD students. Science disciplines and English literature oriented.

https://gist.github.com/1101818

ajlyon · July 23, 2011

Is this intended to be English-language only? The terms you use are hard-coded in the style, so it would appear that this won't localize correctly for Ukrainian publications-- another version would be needed.

The hack of misusing fields to get the correct patent output really gets to be a problem here-- this style won't work with Zotero, since Zotero actually has the necessary fields for patents (see http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/csl-fields/index.html for all the fields and mappings). Part of the problem may be missing mappings between Zotero and CSL-- I don't know whether the needed variables are even present in CSL... Frank has been looking at patent support recently, so maybe he can chip in.

Can I assume that http://library.tup.km.ua/storinka_vykladacha/pryklady_BO.htm is a reliable description of the style? It should be possible to make a more complete version-- this will degrade even for common types like conference papers, if I'm not mistaken.

You may also want to look at working off of the existing, and fairly complete, Russian GOST 7.05. If it's not too different from GOST 7.1, you may be able to get a complete style with relatively little effort.

Mykhailo Shevchuk · July 23, 2011

1. Yes, it's English-only. As a matter of fact, 95% of all publications I use in my work are in English, and this is more or less the case in natural sciences while may be opposite in humanities. Nevertheless, I see no practical use in localization until language field is utilized in CSL to discriminate languages in a single bibliography. In my opinion, it's more convenient to create what-ever-language hard-coded localized version.

2. Yes this is an issue. Here http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/csl-fields/patent.html I found that Zotero and Mendeley, though differently map fields to CSL variables, lack all the same fields for patents, e.i. "international classification", "application number", "country", "priority number" and "assignee". Zotero is just better documented. It would be great if I'm prompted how to resolve this issue.

3. This guideline is better: http://www.google.com.ua/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CC8QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vak.org.ua%2Fdocs%2Fnews%2Fnakaz_26_01_08.doc&ei=DkorTsSOF4PLswbe7q3WCw&usg=AFQjCNF_AYc5rZq7t0iA3lEPdrT8xeYBTQ&sig2=ctrT3Xi5esfVmFsYNQ3f5Q
As for other document types they are quite well described as well (by "else" section in the style). Again, in natural sciences 95% of cited items constitute journal articles, books, chapters and patents. (Well, for this reason I probably should rename the style to bear more specific name.)

4. I've just found that Russian and Ukrainian GOST's differ substantially.

fbennett · July 23, 2011

Myhailo,

As Avram indicated, I'm keen to see improved support for law-related materials, including patents. Your list of desiderata at (2) is very valuable; the Bluebook reference for legal citation in US law reviews etc is not so demanding, and it is useful to know there are more demanding requirements out there. Can you point to a style guide in English that would make use of these fields? If not, that's fine: but I'll need a description of the purpose of each field for reference.

Mykhailo Shevchuk · July 24, 2011

Actually DSTU 7.1:2006 adapts ISBD recommendations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Bibliographic_Description#Structure_of_an_ISBD_record). Yet it's a great deal of work to implement all these rules, and I believe a more flexible CSL is needed. The style I'd like to be published can be used along with known restrictions but I think it might be quite helpful for others in its present form with improvements to come later on.

According to DSTU this patent http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=US&NR=2005234021A1&KC=A1&FT=D&date=20051020&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP should be cited as follows:

Pat. 2005/0234021 United States, Int. Cl. A 61 K 31/675, A 61 K 31/67, C 07 F 9/547. Amino phosphonate and amino bis-phosphonate derivatives / Petasis N. A. (US). - No 10/938256 ; filed 10.09.04 ; publ. 20.10.05.

This one http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=US&NR=5419845A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19950530&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP
as follows:

Pat. 5419845 Int. Cl. C 09 K 5/00, C 23 F 11/10, C 07 F 9/02. Perfluorinated gemdiphosphonates as corrosion inhibitors for antifreeze coolants and others functional fluids / Hirozawa S. T., Turcotte D. E., Welch M. C., Reynolds M. A.; assignee BASF corporation. - No 19940213343 ; filed 15.03.94 ; publ. 30.05.95.
(Em dashes should stand for hyphens.)

The common description is:

Pat. "patent number" "country", Int. Cl. "international classification". "title" / "inventors"; "assignee". - No "application number" ; filed "filing date" ; publ. "issue date".

According to this http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/csl-fields/patent.html all required fields are present in Zotero, but only "patent number", "title", "inventors" and "issue date" are bind to certain CSL variables.
"country", "international classification", "assignee", "application number" and "filing date" lack their CSL counterparts.