German adaption of Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date format)
I adapted the style Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date format) for German usage.
http://www.zotero.org/styles/chicago-author-date_de/dev
I did the following changes:
Thanks,
Peter
PS.: The preview feature does not work at the moment, but this is not a problem of my adaption. See here.
http://www.zotero.org/styles/chicago-author-date_de/dev
I did the following changes:
- replaced delimiter-precedes-last="always" with "never" to get rid of the last comma in author names
- added colon as suffix of term "in"
- added colon as suffix of term "accessed"
- changed variable "issue" of "article-journal from "no." to "Nr."
- changed "month day" to "day. month" for blog posts
Thanks,
Peter
PS.: The preview feature does not work at the moment, but this is not a problem of my adaption. See here.
With the Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (author-date), I came across the problem that the in-text citation of two authors results in:
(Name1, and Name2 2013)
instead of
(Name1 and Name2 2013) [without the comma]
I've seen that this is not the case in your modified German version. How did you do this?
Just changing the delimiter-precedes-last="always" to "never" did only remove the comma before "and" in the bibliography but in the in-text citation it still remains there.
I couldn't find out what code-change caused the comma to remove in your version.
Any help is welcome!
I didn't notice this line, because it didn't contain the "delimiter-precedes-last"-tag at all.
After
<macro name="contributors-short">
<names variable="author">
I had to change the line:
<name form="short" and="text" delimiter=", " initialize-with=". "/>
to
<name form="short" and="text" delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="never" initialize-with=". "/>
and it apparently works fine.
By the way: Is this original behavoir really wanted like this? I've never seen a citation like "Name1, and Name2" before, so it appears to me as if this is a "bug" in the Chicago-styletype and is not only limited to the German way of citation. Or am I missing something here?
EDIT: Okay, I've never heard about the "Oxford comma". Thanks for the information.
The Wikipedia article might be interesting for everybody not familiar with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma