Upgrade StorageEdit style for Ecology Letters
Dear all,
I would need some help for formatting the style for Ecology Letters.
There are 2 problems:
- in the text, the available style gives "Someone et al. 2000a, 2000b" instead of "Someone et al. 2000a, b" as required
- in the reference list, for a book chapter, the book title is abbreviated, which should not be.
I know I can edit the style using TextEdit for example (I'm on MacOSX) but I don't know where to find the fields to edit and what to change them to.
Thank you in advance,
Ivan
I would need some help for formatting the style for Ecology Letters.
There are 2 problems:
- in the text, the available style gives "Someone et al. 2000a, 2000b" instead of "Someone et al. 2000a, b" as required
- in the reference list, for a book chapter, the book title is abbreviated, which should not be.
I know I can edit the style using TextEdit for example (I'm on MacOSX) but I don't know where to find the fields to edit and what to change them to.
Thank you in advance,
Ivan
<citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" collapse="year">
But I don't know how to change it so that it does what I need.
For the second problem, I believe it is in this part of code:
<if type="chapter paper-conference" match="any">
<text term="in" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=": "/>
<text variable="container-title" font-style="italic" form="short"/>
Again, I don't know how to change it... form="long" ??
<citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1"disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" collapse="year-suffix">
2. Just delete the form attribute completely should do the trick.
Are these requirements explained in the documentation of the style? Would you like to contribute them to the official repository?
Either it does not work, or I missed something to import it to Zotero... I've followed the guide and added the extension .csl and dragged it to Firefox to install it. I thought it worked since I have the updated name for this style in the list.
From the author guidelines of Ecology Letters:
"References made to works by the same author(s) and publication year should be included after the year of publication. For instance James et al. 1986a, b."
And:
"Chapters in books
Last name, Initials. et al. (Year). Full title of chapter. In: (Full title of book), Edition (only include this if not the first edition) { [ed(s).] [Editors(s) last name, initials] }. Publisher, City (Include state and country for USA and UK), pp. (page range).
I would be interested in contributing, but I'm not much of an expert in xml (and for now, not sure about the changes).
There is one last issue. In the text, the references should be separated by semi-colons (example from the guidelines: "Able et al. 1997; Able & Charles 1986; Lowe et al. 1986"). But when from the same author, it should be commas ("James et al. 1986a, b").
Is there a way to change it?
Should I then upload it to some repository?
What I mean is that, for example, I knew that I needed to change the "collapse" argument, but I had no idea which value I should give (in this case "year-suffix").
So I was hoping there is some list of the arguments and their possible values. That would be of great help for next time.
http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html
It's not a list per se, but it's exhaustive and searchable.
Instead of "Someone et al. 2000a, b" it writes "Someone et al. 2000a; b" although it does write "Someone et al. 2000, 2001". How do I change it?
By the way, I managed to edit the last problem:
<citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" collapse="year-suffix" year-suffix-delimiter=", ">