Modify numbering style, i.e. change [1] to (1)

brookswalsh

Novice Zotero user, needless to say.

I just want to change the in-text numbering style to parentheses, as in the title, while still using JAMA citation style.

How would I modify things to do this? Many thanks for any assistance.

(I would have searched this forum for previous answers, but I'm not even sure how to properly phrase my question...)

adamsmith

General instructions for modifying styles:
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
Specifically, find

<layout prefix="[" suffix="]" delimiter=",">

change to


<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter=",">

what's a little confusing is that the JAMA citation style is actually just a superscript number so this doesn't apply. If you do want to change JAMA, the actual style you'll want to be looking for is "American Medical Association" -- JAMA is just a link to that.

brookswalsh

Sorry to confuse the issue - I had JAMA on the brain! I had been using the JAMA style originally when... eh, doesn't matter.

I actually meant the American Journal of Emergency Medicine (which uses [#]) and the Journal of Emergency Medicine (which uses (#)).

Let me tackle editing the style. Thanks for your directions!

brookswalsh

Hmm, don't see a "layout prefix" in the CSL for the style I'm trying to modify.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" version="1.0" default-locale="en-US">
<!-- Generated with https://github.com/citation-style-language/utilities/tree/master/generate_dependent_styles/data/elsevier -->
<info>
<title>American Journal of Emergency Medicine</title>
<id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-journal-of-emergency-medicine</id>;
<link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-journal-of-emergency-medicine" rel="self"/>
<link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/elsevier-vancouver" rel="independent-parent"/>
<category citation-format="numeric"/>
<issn>0735-6757</issn>
<updated>2014-05-17T12:00:00+00:00</updated>
<rights license="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License</rights>
</info>
</style>

aurimas

if you're looking in your Zotero data directory, look for "elsevier-vancouver.csl" file (probably inside the "hidden" directory). That's what you want to modify (Journal of Emergency Medicine simply links to that).

As a side note, modifying elsevier-vancouver is not ideal, since it _may_ be linked to by other styles that you use, so those would change as well. If you care and want to do this properly, we can give you instructions. (Zotero should handle this better though)