Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics period problem [solved]

I was recently made aware of the fact that the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Journals CSL style has an error which causes a double period to show up sometimes.

Example bibliography:

  1. Cobbinah, Alexander. 2010. The Casamance as an area of intense language contact. The case of Baïnouk Gubaher. Journal of Language Contact 3(THEMA). 175–201.

  2. Cobbinah, Alexander. 2012. Nominal classification and verbal nouns in Baïnounk Gubëeher.. School of Oriental and African Languages, University of London.

  3. Cobbinah, Alexander & Friederike Lüpke. 2012. Not cut to fit - zero-coded passives in African languages.. In Matthias Brenzinger & Anna-Maria Fehn (eds.), Proceedings of WOCAL 6, 153–164. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

The latter two items in the bibliography show the problem.

I was indirectly involved in the creation of this style but I don't remember seeing this problem before.

Could a CSL wizard help me out? I'm pretty sure it should be an easy fix; probably something like the period being specified in two not always mutually exclusive macros.
  • Could you post the Zotero RDF for those items somewhere? I couldn't easily reproduce this.
  • edited December 4, 2012
    Those are not mine, but this is another item that generates the problem for me: http://www.zotero.org/groups/csl_styles_development/items/itemKey/RUBNRZRI

    Reisman, Karl. 1974. Contrapuntal conversations in an Antiguan village.. In Richard Bauman & Joel Sherzer (eds.), Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, 110–124. London ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Using https://raw.github.com/citation-style-language/styles/master/unified-style-linguistics.csl, I get

    Reisman, Karl. 1974. Contrapuntal conversations in an Antiguan village. In Richard Bauman & Joel Sherzer (eds.), Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, 110–124. London ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

    in the CSL reference test pane for that item. Zotero 3.0.11.1 for Firefox.
  • Aha, that version works for me too.

    It seems, then, that (1) Mendeley may not have been working with the latest version (the colleague that pointed out the error is using Mendeley) and (2) my own copy of the style wasn't auto-updating.
  • styles don't auto-update and Mendeley only updates their style repository every so often.
  • Okay marking topic as solved.

    I probly shouldn't be surprised as a longtime Z user, but I do find it counterintuitive that styles don't auto-update especially given that there also is no easy "update styles" option in Preferences/Styles tab. Do I understand it correctly that I might be stuck with styles from the early years, or does every Z update upgrade at least the default set of styles?
  • see & continue here: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/26664/auto-update-citation-styles/#Item_1
  • From what I've understood, Zotero has never upgraded styles from existing profiles (even carrying over CSL 0.8.1 styles which are in-memory converted to CSL 1.0). (new versions of Zotero do ship with more or less up-to-date styles, see https://github.com/zotero/bundled-styles )
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