Harvard - Manchester Business School - in-text citation

sunflowernina

Hi, I am completely new to csl langauge, so I need help to change the following in-text citation.
Currently in-text citation shows like that
(Fletcher 2004, p.1)

but I would like to have a semicolon between author and year, replace the semicolon with colon between year and page. And then I would like to remove the p. - so it should look like that:

(Fletcher, 2004: 1)

Would be great if someone could help. Thank you

adamsmith

Change
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="year-date"/>
</group>
<group>
<label variable="locator" form="short"/>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>
</group>
</layout>
to
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=": ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="year-date"/>
</group>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>
</layout>

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step for general instructions

sunflowernina

Thanks a lot for this super-fast answer! I did make a correction though as I was still missing the semicolon after the author.

For now, it seems to work like that (hopefully I have not done a mistake) and the citation looks like this:
(Fletcher, 2004: 1)

sunflowernina


<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=": ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="year-date"/>
</group>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>
</layout>


Gracile

(As for html, you can put your code between <code></code> tags)

sunflowernina

Got it - see above! Cool- thank you.

sunflowernina

Hello,
it is the beginner again. This time, I would like to remove the punctuation after "et al." both in the citation and the bibliography.
Could someone help again, please?

sunflowernina

Hello, hello. could someone help with this? Two days until submission...and I also wonder how I can get rid of the first initial in some citations. For example (S.Latham and L.Latham, 2000). I would like to have it like this (Latham and Latham, 2000).
THANKS

adamsmith

For the et al - you mean getting rid of the period in et al. - ie. have it be et al instead of et al. ?
add this <locale xml:lang="en">
<terms>
<term name="et-al">et al</term>
</terms>
</locale>

right after the info section of the style, i.e. after
</info>



For the other issue:
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation

sunflowernina

Great, thank you. Will try it!

sunflowernina

It worked - now the last question. Is there a way to put et al in italics as well? I have seen some explanation on the web but could not change it myself.

adamsmith

Find this

<macro name="author-short">
<names variable="author">
<name form="short" and="text" delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="never" initialize-with=". "/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
<names variable="translator"/>
<text macro="anon"/>
</substitute>
</names>
</macro>

change to this:
<macro name="author-short">
<names variable="author">
<name form="short" and="text" delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="never" initialize-with=". "/>
<et-al font-style="italic"/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
<names variable="translator"/>
<text macro="anon"/>
</substitute>
</names>
</macro>

i.e. add in the et-al font-style="italic" line.
this is for in text citations, if you also want it in italics in the bibliography, do the same in the "author" macro.

sunflowernina

THANKS SO MUCH - IT WORKS and I AM REALLY HAPPY NOW.