Help with Citation styles please

judytill

HI
I wonder if you can help? At the University of Adelaide we have Endnote version of Harvard, Notes and APA styles (they can be downloaded as an .ens file)

I wonder if you could advise how I could convert these .ens files to Zotero files or are you able to use the information in the attached link to make up these styles for Zotero?

I have run some workshops on Zotero and there is a lot of interest, so it would be great if we can have the styles for University of Adelaide versions of APA, NOTES and HARVARD in the style list. I dont think is a real need to have the Vancouver style at this point

Many thanks, I really appreciate your help!

Link to the guides at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/writingcentre/referencing_guides/

fbennett

If you will be supporting use of the styles by the student community locally, you will have the best experience if you maintain them locally. The learning curve is not steep - and there is a good chance that the Zotero Style Repository already contains a style that fits your requirements. The place to start is the Citation Styles page, in the Editing CSL Styles section. Follow the link to the Step-by-step guide, which has a reference to the Search by Example tool.

If you get stuck, post again. (In a side note, a group from my Uni [Nagoya University] paid a visit to the Academic Writing center at Adelaide a couple of years ago. I wasn't able to make that trip, but it's good to meet you here!)

adamsmith

and note that APA and Vancouver already exists, so if you're following the respective manuals, there shouldn't be much need to change. "Harvard" unfortunately is not a standard, so you may have to modify that.

To your other question: no, the .ens files don't help at all, unfortunately.

judytill

Thanks so much for your comments and help, amazing!

Yes the Writing Centre still is in the Hub at Adelaide University and going strong

I'll get back to you if I need any more help

Thanks again