UCL Harvard style

Sonali

Hi

I am a UCL student and am struggling with the citation styles of zotero. None of the available Harvard styles seems to be similar to UCL citation style. We can use Elsevier’s Harvard Style. I have installed it but when I try to use it ,I get this error message: the style you have selected does not appear to be valid.

The style available in Zotero repository are mentioned earlier are not similar to UCL style. The requirements for UCL are in this following link:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucl.ac.uk%2Flibrary%2FReferences_and_Plagiarism.pdf&ei=fEqFUO6qMYjS0QXu5IDwBA&usg=AFQjCNHylt4wX00ViuZ3P0gxlyUyXne39g

Can someone please please make a style for Harvard UCL? I had a look at the style.cls files and almost fainted! any help in this regards is welcome. Please.

Thank you
Sonali

adamsmith

One thing at a time:

We can use Elsevier’s Harvard Style. I have installed it but when I try to use it ,I get this error message: the style you have selected does not appear to be valid.

could you explain that in a bit more detail? Styles installed from the Zotero repository should just work and are most certainly valid.

Sonali

Hi
thank you for your response. I installed elsevier harvard style and elsevier hardvard 2 from the Zotero repository. however when i try to use elsevier harvard 2 style for citation; i get the error message :
'the style you have selected does not appear to be valid. if you have created thus style yourself; please ensure that it passess validation as described at https://github.com/citation....

I have not created this style. I merely downloaded it from the repository and then from the preferences option in zotero, i added the style to zotero and installed it. So i am confused why unvalidated styles are available in the repository? Or am i doing any mistake while downloading them which is leading to this message? Please let me know if you need any further information.

thank you
Sonali

Rintze

What version of Zotero are you using?

adamsmith

and can you install any other styles from the repository successfully?

edit: and just to be clear - the styles on the repository all validate. There's something else going on here.

Sonali

Hi Rintza, i am using version 3.0.8

Adam, yes I installed harvard 3 successfully but there is a problem as said earlier with elsevier harvard 2 style. I agree with you that something else is going. SO i deleted zotero from firefox and downloaded a stand alone version. I re-installed Harvard 3 which works fine but elsevier harvard 2 style does not work and I get the same error message about validation.
thanks

adamsmith

please provide an error report ID right after you get that error message:
http://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_bugs
I'll also check on our side if there's something wrong with the style.