“Style Error: British Journal of Anaesthesia”

Regarding British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA) I find some errors when comparing what I get from Zotero with the instructions I find om BJA's web pages.

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/bjaint/for_authors/general.html

First, BJA wants the journal's name in italics and without full stops. Instead the citation style gives the journal's name in plain text with full stops in between the different parts of the name.

Second, it wrongly includes the month and the number of the issue. The instructions are to only give the name of the journal, the volume, and the pages.

Third, the volume of the journal should be in bold text, and everything else in plain text. The citation style creates everything as plain text.

Fourth, it adds an extra full stop in the end of the citation that shouldn't be there at all.

For clarification, here is the same reference as it has been published in BJA recently, and also how it is formatted with the Zotero citation style. First how it should be:


Miller RD, Ward TA, Shiboski SC, Cohen NH. A comparison of three
methods of hemoglobin monitoring in patients undergoing spine
surgery. Anesth Analg 2011; 112: 858–63

(Remember italics for the title and "112" in bold text, although I cannot get that here.)

Here is what I get from Zotero:

Miller RD, Ward TA, Shiboski SC, Cohen NH. A comparison of three methods of hemoglobin monitoring in patients undergoing spine surgery. Anesth. Analg. 2011 Apr;112(4):858–63.

Thankful if someone could update the citation style.
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