Help, inserting a colon after author

DamianEvans
Hello,

I honestly have read the documentation - but I must have spent 3 hours on this by this stage, I'm hoping no-one minds if I ask for help.

I need the following citation style (among others):

Single-authored book
FORMAT Author [surname, forename]: Title in italics (place of publication: publisher, year) page number [just the number is required]. EXAMPLE Wolff, Christoph: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York and London: W.W. Norton and Co., 2000), 433.

I've got a CSL file open in a text editor (I was using zotero editor but there is no 'find' command that I can find).

Am I correct in thinking I need to find each example of a group delimiter and add
suffix = ":"

where said group delimiter corresponds to a 'author' type category?

If I can get this, I'm fairly sure I can work out the rest.

Many thanks,
Damian
  • adamsmith
    post the style somewhere we can look at it, e.g. pastebin.com or a public gist at gist.github.com and provide the URL here. This is much harder to solve/describe in the abstract.
  • DamianEvans
    Thanks Adam:

    Did you mean post the style guide or the csl file? I've pasted the style guide here:

    http://pastebin.com/EETfbSeK

    According to citationstyles.org search it's a 87% match for 'Organization' style, but still missing the colons I'm looking for, and with the year in the wrong spot.

    Apologies if it wasn't the style guide as per student handbook that you were looking for, let me know what else I can do to help you help me!
  • adamsmith
    If you're working with the organization style, just find
    <layout suffix=".">
    <group delimiter=" ">
    <text macro="author"/>

    and change it to
    <layout suffix=".">
    <group delimiter=" ">
    <text macro="author" suffix=":"/>
  • DamianEvans
    Many thanks Adam.
    That has got me started. I've now managed to move the date to the end also,

    but upon reflection - my inline citation is the full style - so I'm going to give modifying chicago a go, your advice still stands however, and I'm beginning to grasp the concept.

    Many thanks,
    Damian
  • DamianEvans
    Funny, you are probably the same Adam Smith as the Zoteroist blogger, who was the next person I was going to email/blog comment for help concerning turning my scrivener document (which has rtf scan footnotes), into a libreoffice file with scannable cite footnotes and then into fully zotero compatible references with my new corrected style guide!

    But first I'll scan the forum and see if I can find the answer there.

    Thanks, you and Frank are the reasons I took on editing a csl file, hopefully making the next 2 years (finishing PhD) a lot easier - after a bit of messing about.
  • adamsmith
    yup, that's me. Please keep support requests (including for Frank and mine ODF scan) here on the forum, where they're more likely to benefit others.
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