own citations styles?
Hi,
i just found zotero. i use the openoffice plugin. my questions is: i need another citationstyle, that cannot be found in the predined. is there a possibility to the edit or create new citationsstyles, so that i can create the style i need?
i just found zotero. i use the openoffice plugin. my questions is: i need another citationstyle, that cannot be found in the predined. is there a possibility to the edit or create new citationsstyles, so that i can create the style i need?
Authors last name, authors first name (year), Booktitel. Location: publisher.
example:
Müller, Peter (2004), Handbuch der Betriebswirtschaftslehrer. Hamburg: Verlag Nemo.
the version i need is very similar to the "Chicago Manual of Style (Note with Bibliography) " i think it need just a few changes. could help me?
instead of this version
Peter Meier, Handbuch BWL (Uvk, 2006)
it should look like this
Meier, Peter (2006), Handbuch BWL. Hamburg: UVK.
We're hoping to do that over the next few months, but no promises.
In the meantime, feel free to post a style request here.
Thanks for the otherwise terrific work!!
Moreover, since the style language (CSL) is an open format, there is promise to see other projects supporting it, and other repositories.
We all have a good plan; it just takes some time to realize ;-)
On a more practical note, I've signed up for team Zotero for a lit-software competition:
http://citefest.pbwiki.com/
and while I think Zotero stands up well on most accounts, this is one 'challenge' where we'll probably lose big time.
Until today I have not managed to find a place where such errors could be reported. I mean, the corrections could be so easily implemented. Dunno.
I really like this zotero but I couldn't really promote it to my students if it produces formally wrong entries. :(
I wonder if perhaps the Zotero developers could come up with a better, more clear, way to resolve the problems with translations?
So there is already quite a bit of diversity within one academic discipline. Now consider the diversity across academic field. On top of this, diversity is even further multiplied if you want to cater to scholars in different countries.
I think it's good to have as many ready made styles as possible. But you'll never be able to capture this diversity of styles this way, not even by proxy. That is to say, I don't see how this issue can be tackled without an easy to use style editor...
So everybody here knows it's important to have an easy-to-use style creation interface. Simply repeating the limitation over-and-over (do a search on the forums) does nothing to achieve the goal. To do it *right* is not easy, and all of us are really busy with a long list of things; in my case not least teaching and publishing myself, in the case of the Zotero devs, working on a really long list of features (think Zotero 2.0, for example), bug fixes, etc.
But as I say above, I do think I have a plan that will work. The basic idea is a wizard web interface. The interface will step you through a series of choices, in which you can select rendering options based on pre-existing styles, complete with previews. You then assemble the final style, and when done a) it gets submitted to the public repository, and b) you can instantly install and activate it in Zotero (or in theory any application that supports CSL). I think for a lot of styles, the process will take all of five minutes.
I have the very beginnings of a mockup here [warning: incomplete and not exactly as nice as I'm envisioning; this is just to show that we have been thinking on this]. I'm just waiting on some time to free up from someone that has the javascript and web design skills to actually implement this (since I doubt I do).
I am also aware of the fact that everybody is doing their job within certain constraints. In fact I am very grateful for the terrific work that the Zotero team is making available for free. But I have understood this forum to also be an opportunity to provide feedback and ideas for further development. Nothing else was the intention behind my remarks.
tkotze: not ATM. It may get added though.
Just wanted to add my vote....thank you very much!!
Tucc