csl code help, abreviations, and issue numbers

LWatson6813

i need to remove the periods in abbreviations, for a csl code. i also need the issue number to go away.

here is the code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" version="1.0" demote-non-dropping-particle="sort-only" page-range-format="minimal">
<info>
<title>Value in Health</title>
<id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/vancouver-superscript-bracket-only-year</id>;
<link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/vancouver-superscript-bracket-only-year" rel="self"/>
<author>
<name>Logan Watson</name>
<email>lbw@mdm-inc.com</email>
</author>
<contributor>
<name>Damodaran S E</name>
<email>damodaran.se@gmail.com</email>
</contributor>
<contributor>
<name>Michael Berkowitz</name>
<email>mberkowi@gmu.edu</email>
</contributor>
<contributor>
<name>Sean Takats</name>
<email>stakats@gmu.edu</email>
</contributor>
<contributor>
<name>Sebastian Karcher</name>
</contributor>
<category field="medicine"/>
<category citation-format="numeric"/>
<updated>2012-01-12T00:06:00+05:30</updated>
<summary>
Style for Value and Health
</summary>
<link href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html" rel="documentation"/>
<rights>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</rights>;
</info>
<macro name="author">
<names variable="author" suffix=". ">
<name sort-separator=" " initialize-with="" name-as-sort-order="all" delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="always"/>
<label form="long" prefix=", " text-case="lowercase"/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
</substitute>
</names>
</macro>
<macro name="editor">
<names variable="editor" suffix=".">
<name sort-separator=" " initialize-with="" name-as-sort-order="all" delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="always"/>
<label form="long" prefix=", " text-case="lowercase"/>
</names>
</macro>
<macro name="publisher">
<text variable="publisher-place" suffix=": "/>
<text variable="publisher" suffix=" "/>
<group suffix=". ">
<date variable="issued">
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
<text macro="accessed-date" prefix=" "/>
</group>
</macro>
<macro name="access">
<group>
<text value="Available from: "/>
<choose>
<if variable="URL"><text value="" suffix=" "/><text variable="URL"/><group prefix=" [" suffix="]."><text term="accessed" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=" "/><date variable="accessed"><date-part name="month" suffix=" "/><date-part name="day" suffix=", "/><date-part name="year"/></date></group></if>
</choose>
<text variable=""/>
</group>
</macro>
<macro name="accessed-date">

</macro>
<macro name="journal-title">
<choose>
<if type="article-journal article-magazine" match="any">
<group suffix=". ">
<text variable="container-title" form="short"/>
<choose>
<if variable="URL">
<text term="" prefix=" [" suffix="]." text-case="capitalize-first"/>
</if>
</choose>
</group>
</if>
<else>
<text variable="container-title" form="short"/>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>
<macro name="title">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text variable="title"/>
<choose>
<if type="article-journal article-magazine" match="none">
<choose>
<if variable="URL">
<text term="" prefix="[" suffix="]." text-case="capitalize-first"/>
</if>
</choose>
</if>
</choose>
</group>
</macro>
<macro name="edition">
<choose>
<if is-numeric="edition">
<group delimiter=" ">
<number variable="edition" form="ordinal"/>
<text term="edition" form="short" suffix="." strip-periods="true"/>
</group>
</if>
<else>
<text variable="edition" suffix="."/>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>
<citation collapse="citation-number">
<sort>
<key variable="citation-number"/>
</sort>
<layout delimiter="," prefix="[" suffix="]." vertical-align="sup">
<text variable="citation-number"/>
</layout>
</citation>
<bibliography et-al-min="7" et-al-use-first="6" second-field-align="flush">
<layout>
<text variable="citation-number" suffix=" "/>
<text macro="author"/>
<text macro="title" suffix=". "/>
<choose>
<if type="bill book graphic legal_case motion_picture report song" match="any">
<text macro="edition" prefix=" " suffix=" "/>
<text macro="publisher" prefix=" "/>
</if>
<else-if type="chapter paper-conference" match="any">
<group prefix=" " suffix=". ">
<text term="in" suffix=": " text-case="capitalize-first"/>
<text macro="editor"/>
<text variable="container-title"/>
</group>
<text macro="publisher" prefix=" "/>
<text variable="page" prefix=" p. " suffix="."/>
</else-if>
<else>
<text macro="journal-title"/>
<group suffix=". ">
<date variable="issued">
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
<text macro="accessed-date" prefix=" "/>
</group>
<group suffix=". ">
<text variable="volume"/>
<text variable="page" prefix=":"/>
</group>
</else>
</choose>
<text macro="access"/>
</layout>
</bibliography>
</style>

adamsmith

For periods:
In the macro="journal-title"
change
<text variable="container-title" form="short"/>
to

<text variable="container-title" form="short" strip-periods="true"/>

The style you posted will not print issue numbers, just volume numbers.