Style Request: Journal of Clinical Virology

mmallory26
Hi,

I've found errors in the Journal of Clinical Virology citation style. The in-line citations should be superscript with no delimiters. Right now they are not superscript and are bracketed.

Also, the bibliography citations are bracketed:

[1] Smith JS, Doe JP...

but they should only have a suffix:

1. Smith JS, Doe JP...


I fixed most of these problems using a visual editor (http://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor/) by editing the original Elsevier Vancouver csl.

However, I'm still having a little trouble with the in-line citations. When citing multiple citations in-line the hyphen is not superscript although the numeric citations are superscript (e.g. 4-7). Can someone please help me fix this? It's probably obvious to someone with more csl experience, but I can't seem to find the code that is formatting the hyphen. I know I can fix this manually in the document, but I'd rather fix the csl as I will likely use it again.

I also tried searching the forums but didn't find quite what I was looking for. Sorry if this was already addressed in another forum!

Thanks in advance for the help!
M
  • aurimas
    edited October 14, 2013
    @mmallory26
    Citation section from Nature style (superscripted numbers): <citation collapse="citation-number">
    <sort>
    <key variable="citation-number"/>
    </sort>
    <layout vertical-align="sup" delimiter=",">
    <text variable="citation-number"/>
    </layout>
    </citation>

    @adamsmith and/or Rintze (but I guess ultimately @cpina),

    The journal seems to use Elsevier's Embelished Vancouver, which CSL repo has no mention of. So I set off looking how this style was generated and it says that it's an autogenerated dependent style. I was looking through the Elsevier journal list and that journal is not mentioned, which raises the question of how it was auto-generated (it's no where on the utilities repo). Furthermore, looking for other journals that use "Embelished Vancouver", I noticed that none of those journals appear in the Elsevier's list either.

    Edit: also, Elsevier lists 2,480 journals, but CSL repo only lists 1,662. Looks like we're missing quite a few.
  • mmallory26
    Very helpful! Thanks, aurimas!!!

    In case anyone else runs into this problem, the visual editor changed the code to:

    <layout delimiter="," >
    <text variable="citation-number" vertical-align="sup" />
    </layout>

    which is not as helpful as it only makes the citations superscript.
  • adamsmith
    I'll enquire about embelished vancouver.
    It looks like utilities is missing the last updated elsevier list - the last commit to utitilities/elsevier is three month old, the last commit updating elsevier styles (including adding j. clin. vir. is two month old.
  • adamsmith
    re the no. of Elsevier journals:
    they're gradually moving all of their journals to standard styles, but it's gradual and I doubt all journals will ever go along, since some are likely attached to their legacy styles.

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