Edited style of "BMC central" does not modify bibliography

S_Romano

I downloaded the of "Biomed central" from the following link:

http://www.zotero.org/styles/biomed-central

I opened it in the standalone version as follow:

Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Open Style editor

I did the changes I need and they looked good in the preview of the editor. I saved then my file as .csl and loaded into the Style. Back to my file (I work with open office) I click the option "Set document preferences" and I select among the styles the new one I created.

When I look at the bibliography only some of the modification appear. All the font style I changed from Bold to normal are there. However, the option

bibliography et-al-min="31" et-al-use-first="30"

that I changed to

bibliography et-al-min="31" et-al-use-first="6"

does not work and I still see all the authors in the quote.

Any advice?

fbennett

There are 31 or more authors in your sample?

S_Romano

Yes, and I want to show in the quote just the first six and then use "et al.".

In the preview of the editor it works fine, just in the odt file it does not work.

fbennett

Two other questions before I leave you in more capable hands ...

First, did you change both the name and ID of the style when you modified it?

Second (just to be sure) did you switch away to a different style and then back, when testing in the word processor?

S_Romano

I just followed your advice I changed the Id and also changed to different styles and then go back to my custom one. I still have the same problem

Below the Id there is still this field:

link href

which link to the Biomed center. I do not know if I have to modify this and how.

adamsmith

If you look at the new style, now installed, in the Zotero style editor it works, correct?

How about in a new LO document?

S_Romano

Yes in the style editor works. It does not work in Open office in bot new and old documents

adamsmith

We'd want to see the style&the reference in questions. Copy&paste the style to gist.github.com.

To the same gist (but as a separate file), also post the bibliontology RDF of that reference (the one with >31 authors): right-click --> Export --> Bibliontology RDF open the saved file with any text editor, select all and copy.
Click "add file" in your gist, the paste the exported reference to the new empty window.

Now create a secret or public gist (doesn't matter) and post the link here.

S_Romano

I tried, can you see if the link works?

https://gist.github.com/7902b2a2c9f184b16891

adamsmith

yes that works (without the .git part at the end). At first glance I can't see a reason this wouldn't work. I'll do some more testing later, but that'll take a bit.

fbennett

Works fine here, both in csledit and in a document (Juris-M, LibreOffice).

S_Romano

Ok, it worked also for me.
The correct changes are:

bibliography et-al-min="6" et-al-use-first="6"

and not

bibliography et-al-min="31" et-al-use-first="6"

adamsmith

no, those are just two different changes. One kicks in for more than 6 authors, the other one for more than 30.