Havard style, add ibid without period or author reference

alexjg

Hello

I am new to CSL and am having trouble customising a citation style for my thesis.

I would like to be able to use ibid for a reference that has been previously cited.

I have had a look at different topics and tried to add in the ibid condition but I end up with "(ibid.AUTHOR, DATE)".

Here is the code below that I think is relevant to this:

<choose>
<if position="ibid-with-locator">
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase" suffix=", "/>
<text variable="locator"/>
</if>
<else-if position="ibid">
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase"/>
</else-if>
</choose>

Any help that you can offer would be most welcome, please let me know if you need more information from me.
Thanks
Alex

p.s. if you need the larger section of code, it is here:

<citation et-al-min="100" et-al-use-first="1" et-al-subsequent-min="3" et-al-subsequent-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" disambiguate-add-givenname="true" givenname-disambiguation-rule="all-names" name-as-sort-order="all" collapse="year-suffix">
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<choose>
<if position="ibid-with-locator">
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase" suffix=", "/>
<text variable="locator"/>
</if>
<else-if position="ibid">
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase"/>
</else-if>
</choose>
<group delimiter=", ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="year-date"/>
</group>
<group prefix=" ">
<label variable="locator" form="short"/>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>
</group>
</layout>
</citation>

adamsmith

right idea, but if you just read through your code logically, it will always display the whole citation - you need an <else> condition to say that normal citations are only printed when ibid/ibid-with-locator isn't true:
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<choose>
<if position="ibid-with-locator">
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase" suffix=", "/>
<text variable="locator"/>
</if>
<else-if position="ibid">
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase"/>
</else-if>
<else>
<group delimiter=", ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="year-date"/>
</group>
<group prefix=" ">
<label variable="locator" form="short"/>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>
</group>
</else>
</choose>
</layout>

adamsmith

And to get rid of the period--all abbreviations are in CSL with periods by default, to get rid of them use strip-periods="true" as in :
<text term="ibid" text-case="lowercase" suffix=", " strip-periods="true"/>

alexjg

Hello

Thank you very much for your help, I have been able to get that to work.

I understand your comment with regards to the period.

With regards to ibid I do not fully understand what I have changed, is it adding the condition that means the Author and Date will be printed in the citation unless the ibid conditions (if position, else-if position) are fulfilled (sorry if I have used the wrong terms).

If I am missing something basic here please let me know and I can have a read into it to try get my head around it.

Thanks
Alex

adamsmith

With regards to ibid I do not fully understand what I have changed, is it adding the condition that means the Author and Date will be printed in the citation unless the ibid conditions (if position, else-if position) are fulfilled

yup, that exactly.

alexjg

Great, thank you very much for that
Alex