Changing parts of a dependent style

mgordon78

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to use a style through linking to it and then changing those parts that the current paper demands, here's an example how I would like to format the style:
https://gist.github.com/1170967

The journal that this applies to is Acta Orthopaedica (prev. Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica) and they use the Vancouver system with some changes: http://www.actaorthop.org/index.php?p=include/aut/man_ref

adamsmith

no, that's not possible. You'll have to write an entirely new style unless the styles are 100% identical.
There are many styles that are only marginally different on the repository.

edit: by "write an entirely new style" I mean of course change the name and ID of the existing Vancouver style and then change the few relevant passages that are different.

mgordon78

Thank you! Created a style based on the Vancouver, I think it's correct but I haven't tested it extensively yet (and I haven't checked with the journal), should it still be published?

https://gist.github.com/1171226

adamsmith

see here for some formal requirements before we can upload the style to the repository:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/sharing_styles

Also, you're currently sorting in-text citations based on "citation-number" - that can't possibly be right, can it?

mgordon78

Thank you, you're perfectly right about the citation-number. I've updated the gist.