Help removing extraneous information and date cited

pstew
I'm using this CSL: http://www.zotero.org/styles/cancer-epidemiology-biomarkers-and-prevention . It worked fine for my first citation, but then my second citation has a bunch of extra info added (date cited, internet source, available from) that I do not wish displayed:

1. Desgrosellier JS, Cheresh DA. Integrins in cancer: biological implications and therapeutic opportunities. Nat Rev Cancer. 2010;10:9–22.

2. Best A, Dagliesh C, Ehrmann I, Kheirollahi-Kouhestani M, Tyson-Capper A, Elliott DJ. Expression of Tra2B in Cancer Cells as a Potential Contributory Factor to Neoplasia and Metastasis. Int J Cell Biol [Internet]. 2013 [cited 2014 Apr 23];2013. Available from: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijcb/2013/843781/abs/

I tried following suggestions at this link https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/18912/ , but I can't find any of the items they refer to (I don't see <text macro="access"/> in my CSL file). Could you please tell me how to remove all of the extraneous information in the second citation? Why doesn't my second citation look like my first? Thank you!
  • adamsmith
    items retrieved online and without page ranges display the information required for online citations. Are you sure that's not required? It is in regular NLM/Vancouver style.
  • pstew
    edited April 30, 2014
    Well the article is "published" in an online, open access journal so it shouldn't change. Since it shouldn't change I'm not sure why it has an accessed date. I've read a lot of scientific articles and haven't seen use of this particular citation format. As far as I know it's perfectly acceptable for citation 2 to look like citation 1 as long as the volume and article ID are included. Maybe I'm wrong? Where is this format setting information so I can edit it?
  • adamsmith
    the AACR guidelines point to the general NLM guidelines, which has examples to this effect under 36 here:
    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
    (and in more details in the freely available "Citing Medicine" book).

    Getting rid of this isn't trivial, since you need to remove different parts of the citation (the URL, the access date, the "Internet"). It's probably easiest to do in the visual editor:
    http://editor.citationstyles.org/about/
    The style you want to edit is "American Association of Cancer Research" the CEBP style ist just a link to that.
  • aurimas
    Article ID should probably be included as the page then. Maybe e843781 or id843781 or just 843781?
  • adamsmith
    right, good point - if you include the article ID in the page field you won't get the cited info etc. I thought our translator did that, but I'm clearly misremembering.
  • aurimas
    We do this for a number of journals (mostly because it's in the metadata presented on the site), but apparently not for Hindawi. So what format should this be in? I think e is the most common way to present electronic publications.
  • pstew
    Thanks! The idea of putting in "e" + article ID (e843781) for the pages fixed the citation. I'll check out the visual editor for future use.

    Will I have to always manually adjust e-published citations in this manner, or is this a Hindawi-specific issue?

    I'd like to understand CSL editing for the future. The CSL file I downloaded for CEBP doesn't have a lot of the common XML tags that I read about in modifying CSL files (I mentioned above that it doesn't have the <text macro="access"/>). Does the CEBP CSL file somehow link to other citation styles? I know CEBP uses the AACR style, but where does the CSL file get the information about how to properly format everything according to the AACR style?
  • aurimas
    Will I have to always manually adjust e-published citations in this manner, or is this a Hindawi-specific issue?
    No, this should generally import correctly. We fixed it for Hindawi, but if something else like this comes up, please let us know.
    The CSL file I downloaded for CEBP doesn't have a lot of the common XML tags that I read about in modifying CSL files (I mentioned above that it doesn't have the ). Does the CEBP CSL file somehow link to other citation styles?
    The CEBP CSL file simply tells Zotero to use the AACR style <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-association-for-cancer-research" rel="independent-parent"/>, which you can see here: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=american-association-for-cancer-research
  • pstew
    Thank you for your fast responses! This was all very helpful. I'm really enjoying Zotero.

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