Style for EU-funded research projects

sdspieg

I am trying to figure out the CSL-syntax and it is taking me some more time than I had hoped (the documentation seems excellent, but it is not something one figures out in 30'). Therefore the following question: can somebody with a better feel for these things please take a look at the following bibliographical style (which is now mandatory for all EU-funded research projects) to let us know what existing style comes closest - https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-opIuO3xlZsYkV4dXVfVm1PYWM)? Then we can use that to make the necessary changes over the next few days (and of course deposit it in the repository). By the way, I have also downloaded most of the references in that documents into Zotero for validation purposes, so if anybody else wants to help work on this, I'd be happy to send the rdf-file. Thanks!

-Stephan

adamsmith

I'd go with Chicago Manual (Note or Full Note - their bibliographies are identical). No perfect match, but pretty close.

sdspieg

Ok. Thanks Adam!

sdspieg

Hmmm. Chicago Full note is still a pretty complicated xml-file.
It will really take me a few hours to really dig into this. Is there anybody reading this with experience in CSL who might be able and willing to make the few changes we need? I presume that if you know what you're doing, this really shouldn't take too much time. And we might even be able to reimburse that person (modestly) for the time s/he puts into this. If so, please contact me via pm. And we WILL of course post the result in the public repository for all to use freely. Thanks!

-Stephan

adamsmith

I'd be happy to do that - do you still have my e-mail?

sdspieg

For those who are interested - I am happy to report that this is being worked on by one of the many incredible experts here on this forum! The person who is doing it will post back here when he has something.

adamsmith

A first version of the style is up now. Please test and let me know any problems.

Rintze

Can we link to an official EU webpage? (e.g. http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-000500.htm )

Also, the current name "European Union Format" is a bit vague. It would be nice if we could come up with something more precise. Would "European Union — Interinstitutional Style Guide" do?

adamsmith

I'd like to hear from Stephan about this, but the google doc I based this on says it's a combination of the Interinstitutional Guide and "New Hart's Rule" from OUP, so I'm not sure.

edit: the interinstitutional guide is less comprehensive and they use single quotes instead of double quotes - so this doesn't look like it's the same.

sdspieg

I'm making the necessary inquiries - will get back to you as soon as I find out.

sdspieg

Things are a BIT clearer now. The style is essentially based on the recommendations made in the European Commission's Interinstitutional Style Guide (ISG) (http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-250504.htm). The number of concrete citation examples in the EC's style guide being rather limited, David Wright from Trilateral Research, a London-based consultancy that has participated in a large number of EU-funded research projects, put together some more examples showing various permutations for books and journals. He did that on the basis of another recommendation contained in the ISG, which refers to New Hart's Rules for citations (http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-4110000.htm). And he made a few minor judgment calls of his own (like on the use of double quotes instead of single quotes). But so we are now trying to have the people at the European Commission who deal with these issues to take a look at all of this.
Summing up, I'd say it's a usable style for the time being (for EU projects), but it may still be amended before we can really make it 'official'.