can't change delimiter between years when collapse year-suffix is used

arminbahl

Hi, I am creating a new style for the repository, and the journal want's a citation like

(Author1 et al., 2003; Author1 et al., 2004; Author2 et al., 2004)

look like this:

(Author1 et al., 2003, 2004; Author2 et al., 2004)

currently I always get the following:
(Author1 et al., 2003; 2004; Author2 et al., 2004)

I use

<citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" collapse="year-suffix" year-suffix-delimiter=",">

problem is the semicolon between 2003 and 2004. How can I change this to be a comma while the semicolon between authors remains?

Thanks for helping!
Armin

fbennett

It's done with after-collapse-delimiter. There is an example here.

(Actually, that's not quite what you're after, is it. Maybe. It depends on the delimiter the style needs between two uncollapsed author-date cites.)

arminbahl

Thanks for the answer, but this does not work as after-collapse-delimiter=", " does something like this:

(Author1 et al., 2003; Author1 et al., 2004; Author2 et al., 2004) -->
(Author1 et al., 2003; 2004, Author2 et al., 2004)

but I would like to have the comma between the years not after the last year:
(Author1 et al., 2003, 2004; Author2 et al., 2004)

thanks for helping

adamsmith

this is currently not possible, but will be covered in the next version of csl:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/issues/52
It's possible that Zotero (especially the 3.0 version) would already do this correctly, you can try.
For the repository, we're currently only accepting csl 1.0 (not 1.0.1) style, however.