Style Request: [GoBS Berlin]

cebra
Hello all,

i'm quite desperate by now after having spent hours and hours trying to adapt an existing style to my needs and still not being successful. (I'm afraid i am not talented enough to code csl):

The style i found which is matching best is "Harvard - University of Abertay Dundee". What i need looks like this:

Campbell, John L.; Pedersen, Ove K. (2007): The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success, in: Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 40, Iss. 3, S. 307–332.

inline citation: Campbell/Pedersen (2007), S. 307-332
comment: When there are 3 ore more autors, just the first author followed by "et al."
comment: The inline citation needs no (braces), since it is always a footnote.

Mares, Isabela (2001): Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers?, in: Hall, Peter A.; Soskice, David (Hrsg.): Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage, Aufl. 2, Oxford University Press: New York, S. 184–213.

inline citation: Mares (2001), S. 184-213.


comment: Aufl. 2 (Edition) needs to be inserted when it is not the first edition

webpage:
Citation Style Editor (2012): CSL search by example, URL: http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/, erschienen am: 15.12.2012, Abruf am: 30.08.2014. (last access: date of last access)

inline citation: author surname, name (2012), o.S. (means: without page)
Comment: Name of the author OR name of the maintainer of the site

Can anyone contribute time and effort to help me?
Thanks in advance,

cebra
  • adamsmith
    I'm sorry to say that we just don't have the capacity to write styles for individual universities or departments (all the existing such styles were submitted by users)
    http://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor/
    is your best bet (unless you want to pay someone, of course)
  • zuphilip
    A good starting point for creating citation styles is this step-by-step documentation. Is there an online available documentation for the citation rules you want to follow? Is it actually a German style (Auflage, erschienen) or Englisch (Volume, Issue)? You might copy the style you have so far to https://gist.github.com/ and copy the link here. What problems do you encounter?
  • cebra
    Dear adamsmith and zuphilip,

    thank you for your reply.

    I have actually spent not just a couple of hours but in fact i was trying for days and weeks to understand the visual editor and the step by step documentation. I just don't understand it. And on top its in english, which is not my native language.
    I understand that its easy for you - unfortunately not at all for me. As i wrote i'm quite desparate by now.

    I am citing both german and english literature, so it can be both, either Auflage or Volume.
    I don't want to pay someone in the first place - but what in euro would it be?
  • adamsmith
    The going rate for a normal style (which this looks to be, though I'd only be able to say for sure after seeing the styleguide) is US$150, so about 110 Euros. Obviously that's very steep for students--though quite low for any custom computer work--and really our* target audience are rather journal publishers and universities/departments who want CSL styles available for their authors/students.
    My main recommendation would be to talk to people at your school and see if they're really insistent on you using this particular style -- there are, after all, dozens of German styles available already, not to speak of the hundreds of English ones. You could also suggest that they have one of their IT people code a style or pay us to do so.

    *when I say "our" I refer to the CSL project, which provides the citation styles to Zotero and many other reference managers and is an independent open source project.
  • edkowitsch96
    Hi adamsmith,

    I am basically in the same situation as cebra. I am writing my thesis at a german university and yes, they are pretty stubborn when it comes to use a slighly different citation stile. We have to use the exact specifications the faculty is giving us.

    TL;DR: I would pay for a customized csl stile! Can you please give me a contact, I am pretty desperate.

    Ed
  • adamsmith
    My (Sebastian) e-mail is at the bottom of this post:
    https://www.zotero.org/blog/summer-zotero-workshops/
    please send the style requirement along and I can give you a definite quote. I speak German, FWIW.

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