Firstly, there is a list of Endnote styles for specific journals at http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp. Would it be possible to import those styles into Zotero? If this is not an option (copyright or some other reason),
It's technically possible, but potentially legally problematic.
Also, there's a larger strategic issue of whether it's a good idea to encourage reliance on existing proprietary styles, or to encourage the expansion of CSL styles (which are totally open, and implementable by any project). I see a danger in the former approach myself.
would it be possible to create and customize a new citation style in Zotero? And then mail it in as a contribution? I figure if this could be a community effort we could all help each other.
Yes, absolutely! This is in fact the intention behind CSL; that all styles are hosted on the internet and freely available for anyone to use. See http://www.zotero.org/styles and http://dev.zotero.org/csl_syntax_summary if you'd like to help. I (the author of the style language) consider the APA style in the dev section of the repository to be a good model of how to design styles.
Thank you for the very quick response and the amendment to the style. The first citation of a source is now correct but the subsequent citations of the same source do not use the short title but the full book title. eg Lambert, John Constable and the theory of landscape painting, pp. 74-80
i have only 10 days than is my thesis due. i am willing to spend the time, but the thesis is very urgent and timekilling. the problem is there is no link at this institution i could give you to check it. the profs gave us the styles, they're not written down in any linkable doc.
Right, it's a (author-year) style and i need it in the footnote. isn't it possible to take it quickly from another style? and then just turn on the option in the footnote? Please i need it. if i would know how to make those style i would do it on my own. but the thesis takes my time.
Journal of the American Dietetic Association (JADA):
It is exactly the same as the American Medical Association (AMA) citation, only that in the reference list/bibliography you don't use "et al." Instead, you cite every author by last name and first initial.
atomdogg: I added the style based on your description. I did not check it against the documentation, though, taking your word that is identical save for the et-al issue.
Julian -- if you get a chance, these two could use some normalization as I saw you did elsewhere.
I wonder whether you intend to include in your program the citation format from the Association française de normalization (AFNOR). This is the one most scholars in Social Sciences use here in France. You may like to take a look to the way it has been included into the Refworks platform:
1) Book, Section
Bibliography: VAUGHAN, Samuel. Observations concerning the cultivation of Coffee in St. Domingo, and its probable increase in Jamaica, if the Slave trade shall not be abolished by act of Parliament. In EDWARDS, Bryan. . Philadelphie: James Humphreys, 1806. Vol. 3
In-Text Citation: (VAUGHAN, S. 1806.)
Notes: VAUGHAN, S. Observations concerning the cultivation of Coffee in St. Domingo, and its probable increase in Jamaica, if the Slave trade shall not be abolished by act of Parliament. In The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. 1806.
2) Book, Whole
Bibliography: WARNER, Samuel. Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County . New York : Printed for Warner \& West, 1831.
In-Text Citation: (WARNER, S. 1831.)
Notes: WARNER, S. Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County. 1831.
3) Journal Article
Bibliography: THE COST OF PITT'S CARIBBEAN CAMPAIGNS, 1793-1798. GEGGUS, David. 26. 1983. 699-706 p.(note: Historical Journal [Great Britain] 1983 26(3): 699-706.). ISSN : 0018-246X.
In-Text Citation: (GEGGUS, D. 1983.)
Notes: GEGGUS, D. THE COST OF PITT'S CARIBBEAN CAMPAIGNS, 1793-1798. In Historical Journal. 1983.
There are thousands of different styles, and even though they may all be based on a few key styles, they are all slightly different. Which is why this discussion is so long.
An EndNote style (.ens file) import function as proposed by someone early on in this discussion might be hard to develop, but would make a huge difference! I would migrate to zotero straight away if this was available. And in the long run it would safe a lot of time for the developers, too.
However, if you feel inclined to produce a few citation styles that are important to me, here is a list of journals:
Bulletin of Volcanology: http://www.springer.com/geosciences/geology/journal/445?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=150135
Chemical Geology: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503324/authorinstructions
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology: http://www.springer.com/geosciences/geology/journal/410?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=512909
Earth and Planetary Science Letters: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503328/authorinstructions
G-cubed (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems): http://www.agu.org/journals/gc/
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: http://gca.wustl.edu/information/manform.html
Geology: http://www.springer.com/geosciences/geology/journal/445?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=150135
Journal of Petrology: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/petroj/for_authors/index.html
Journal of the Geological Society (of London): http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/publications/author_instructions;jsessionid=9B64F456A46878AA27E851F4CB4A43F5
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503346/authorinstructions
Lithos: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503348/authorinstructions
and the AGU journals that share the following citation style:
http://www.agu.org/pubs/AuthorRefSheet.pdf
I started using zotero several months ago. It is much more handy than endnote. However, the American Physical Society reference citation style is not included which is really a pity. APS citation styles is adopted by the most highly cited physics journals( Phys. Rev. Lett, and the all the Phys. Rev. A-E series and the Rev. of Mod. Phys.). I hope zotero can include its style. The link to the style info:
http://authors.aps.org/STYLE/ms.html#citations
Hi bdarcus, thank you very much for helping people on this forum. I really like zotero a lot. I think more and more physicists and PhD students will start using it. However, now the barrier is that it does not support the most popular ref style among physicists (American Physical Society reference citation style). If this one can be included, I believe I can convert a lot of my friends from endnote users to zotero fans.
http://authors.aps.org/STYLE/ms.html#citations
There are thousands of different styles, and even though they may all be based on a few key styles, they are all slightly different. Which is why this discussion is so long.
This is true, but should be a temporary state of affairs. See earlier thread.
One prerequisite we need to do the web interface I have in mind is to ensure we have all the base styles (upon which all the minor variations you note are based) covered well, and that the styles have the appropriate metadata such that they can be associated with the proper fields (biology, history, etc.).
An EndNote style (.ens file) import function as proposed by someone early on in this discussion might be hard to develop, but would make a huge difference! I would migrate to zotero straight away if this was available. And in the long run it would safe a lot of time for the developers, too.
It turns out not to be that hard technically. But there are some potentially thorny legal and strategic issues behind relying on what some might consider the property of a company that may see it has a lot to lose from Zotero.
"References. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of their references and for correct text citation. Number references in the order they appear in the text; do not alphabetize. In text, tables, and legends, identify references with superscript Arabic numerals. When listing references, follow AMA style3(pp39-79) and abbreviate names of journals according to the journals list in PubMed. List all authors and/or editors up to 6; if more than 6, list the first 3 followed by “et al.” Note: Journal references should include the issue number in parentheses after the volume number.
Examples of reference style:
1. Morrow DA, Scirica BM, Karwatowska-Prokopczuk E, et al; for the MERLIN-TIMI 36 Trial Investigators. Effects of ranolazine on recurrent cardiovascular events in patients with non–ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: the MERLIN-TIMI 36 randomized trial. JAMA. 2007;297(16):1775-1783.
Many specialty journals have idiosyncratic requirements.
Could Zotero offer the following:
In the Document Preferences box, choose a preset style, or offer the following as check-box choices:
List in alphabetical order, or list in order cited.
List year before volume, or list year after page numbers.
List 3 authors before using et al, 4 authors, 5 authors, 6 authors..
In text, put reference numbers in superscript or in parentheses.
ie give the user an ability to create a style using a preference box. That style can then be saved in preferences for that individual.
Yes, citation styles are a lot more complex than they might outwardly appear. The CSLs used by Zotero are at the moment by far the best way to represent the contorted logic that goes into each journal's style.
References: In the text, references should be in chronological order and with the year in parentheses. In the fi rst entry of each reference list up to fi ve authors. When there are six or more authors, the sixth and subsequent authors are abbreviated as “et al.”: Pfadenhauer (1995), Pfadenhauer & Otte (1995), Gurnell, Petts, Hannah, Smith, Edwards et al. (2001). In the second and following entries of the same reference, only the fi rst author is named and all co-authors are abbreviated as “et al.”. Avoid excessive citations; cite only essential resources.
In the list, references should be arranged fi rst alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identifi ed by the letters “a”, “b”, “c”, etc. after the year of publication. The following usage should be confi rmed to: Reference to a journal publication:
Gurnell, A.M., Petts, G.E., Hannah, D.M., Smith, B.P.G., Edwards, P.J., Kollmann, J., Ward, J.V., & Tockner, K. (2001). Riparian vegetation and island formation along the gravelbed Fiume Tagiamento, Italy. Earth Surface processes and Land Forms, 26, 31–62.
Reference to a book: Ellenberg, H. (1996). Vegetation Mitteleuropas mit den Alpen. (1st ed.). Stuttgart: Ulmer Verlag.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book: :
Gurr, G.M., Wratten, S.D., & Barbosa, P. (2000). Success in conservation biological control of arthropods. In: G.M. Gurr & S.D. Wratten (Eds.), Biological control: Measures of success (pp. 105–132). Dordrecht: Kluwer
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Also, there's a larger strategic issue of whether it's a good idea to encourage reliance on existing proprietary styles, or to encourage the expansion of CSL styles (which are totally open, and implementable by any project). I see a danger in the former approach myself. Yes, absolutely! This is in fact the intention behind CSL; that all styles are hosted on the internet and freely available for anyone to use. See http://www.zotero.org/styles and http://dev.zotero.org/csl_syntax_summary if you'd like to help. I (the author of the style language) consider the APA style in the dev section of the repository to be a good model of how to design styles.
This style seems to use the short title, where one exists, instead of the full book title, for the first citation of a source.
eg the first citation should be :
Ray Lambert, John Constable and the theory of landscape painting (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2005).
but if I include a short title "Theory" in the Zotero info - the first citation is:
Ray Lambert, Theory (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2005).
This does not seem to be the case for other note only styles.
Thank you for the very quick response and the amendment to the style. The first citation of a source is now correct but the subsequent citations of the same source do not use the short title but the full book title.
eg
Lambert, John Constable and the theory of landscape painting, pp. 74-80
but should be:
Lambert, Theory , pp. 74-80
That's great. Thank you very much.
Similar problem with Art History Journal style.
I have just discovered that this style also uses the short title in the first citation of a source.
i have only 10 days than is my thesis due. i am willing to spend the time, but the thesis is very urgent and timekilling. the problem is there is no link at this institution i could give you to check it. the profs gave us the styles, they're not written down in any linkable doc.
Right, it's a (author-year) style and i need it in the footnote. isn't it possible to take it quickly from another style? and then just turn on the option in the footnote? Please i need it. if i would know how to make those style i would do it on my own. but the thesis takes my time.
Thank you for the Art History fix
It is exactly the same as the American Medical Association (AMA) citation, only that in the reference list/bibliography you don't use "et al." Instead, you cite every author by last name and first initial.
http://www.editorialmanager.com/adaj/account/style.pdf
Julian -- if you get a chance, these two could use some normalization as I saw you did elsewhere.
1) Book, Section
Bibliography: VAUGHAN, Samuel. Observations concerning the cultivation of Coffee in St. Domingo, and its probable increase in Jamaica, if the Slave trade shall not be abolished by act of Parliament. In EDWARDS, Bryan. . Philadelphie: James Humphreys, 1806. Vol. 3
In-Text Citation: (VAUGHAN, S. 1806.)
Notes: VAUGHAN, S. Observations concerning the cultivation of Coffee in St. Domingo, and its probable increase in Jamaica, if the Slave trade shall not be abolished by act of Parliament. In The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. 1806.
2) Book, Whole
Bibliography: WARNER, Samuel. Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County . New York : Printed for Warner \& West, 1831.
In-Text Citation: (WARNER, S. 1831.)
Notes: WARNER, S. Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County. 1831.
3) Journal Article
Bibliography: THE COST OF PITT'S CARIBBEAN CAMPAIGNS, 1793-1798. GEGGUS, David. 26. 1983. 699-706 p.(note: Historical Journal [Great Britain] 1983 26(3): 699-706.). ISSN : 0018-246X.
In-Text Citation: (GEGGUS, D. 1983.)
Notes: GEGGUS, D. THE COST OF PITT'S CARIBBEAN CAMPAIGNS, 1793-1798. In Historical Journal. 1983.
Merci!
An EndNote style (.ens file) import function as proposed by someone early on in this discussion might be hard to develop, but would make a huge difference! I would migrate to zotero straight away if this was available. And in the long run it would safe a lot of time for the developers, too.
Bulletin of Volcanology: http://www.springer.com/geosciences/geology/journal/445?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=150135
Chemical Geology: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503324/authorinstructions
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology: http://www.springer.com/geosciences/geology/journal/410?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=512909
Earth and Planetary Science Letters: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503328/authorinstructions
G-cubed (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems): http://www.agu.org/journals/gc/
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: http://gca.wustl.edu/information/manform.html
Geology: http://www.springer.com/geosciences/geology/journal/445?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=150135
Journal of Petrology: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/petroj/for_authors/index.html
Journal of the Geological Society (of London): http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/publications/author_instructions;jsessionid=9B64F456A46878AA27E851F4CB4A43F5
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503346/authorinstructions
Lithos: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503348/authorinstructions
and the AGU journals that share the following citation style:
http://www.agu.org/pubs/AuthorRefSheet.pdf
Thanks!
http://authors.aps.org/STYLE/ms.html#citations
http://authors.aps.org/STYLE/ms.html#citations
One prerequisite we need to do the web interface I have in mind is to ensure we have all the base styles (upon which all the minor variations you note are based) covered well, and that the styles have the appropriate metadata such that they can be associated with the proper fields (biology, history, etc.). It turns out not to be that hard technically. But there are some potentially thorny legal and strategic issues behind relying on what some might consider the property of a company that may see it has a lot to lose from Zotero.
Oecologia
Basic and applied Ecology
New Phytologist
The Lichenologist
Ecology
"References. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of their references and for correct text citation. Number references in the order they appear in the text; do not alphabetize. In text, tables, and legends, identify references with superscript Arabic numerals. When listing references, follow AMA style3(pp39-79) and abbreviate names of journals according to the journals list in PubMed. List all authors and/or editors up to 6; if more than 6, list the first 3 followed by “et al.” Note: Journal references should include the issue number in parentheses after the volume number.
Examples of reference style:
1. Morrow DA, Scirica BM, Karwatowska-Prokopczuk E, et al; for the MERLIN-TIMI 36 Trial Investigators. Effects of ranolazine on recurrent cardiovascular events in patients with non–ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: the MERLIN-TIMI 36 randomized trial. JAMA. 2007;297(16):1775-1783.
2. Lynfield R, Ogunmodede F, Guerina NG. Toxoplasmosis. In: McMillan JA, Feigin RD, DeAngelis CD, Jones MD Jr, eds. Oski’s Pediatrics: Principles and Practice. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006:1351-1362.
3. The key and critical objectives of JAMA. http://jama.ama-assn.org/misc/aboutjama.dtl. Accessed April 4, 2007.
Could Zotero offer the following:
In the Document Preferences box, choose a preset style, or offer the following as check-box choices:
List in alphabetical order, or list in order cited.
List year before volume, or list year after page numbers.
List 3 authors before using et al, 4 authors, 5 authors, 6 authors..
In text, put reference numbers in superscript or in parentheses.
ie give the user an ability to create a style using a preference box. That style can then be saved in preferences for that individual.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/504091/authorinstructions
thanks
Basic and Applied Ecology
http://www.elsevier.de/sixcms/media.php/820/baae_instructions.pdf
References: In the text, references should be in chronological order
and with the year in parentheses. In the fi rst entry of each reference
list up to fi ve authors. When there are six or more authors, the sixth
and subsequent authors are abbreviated as “et al.”:
Pfadenhauer (1995), Pfadenhauer & Otte (1995), Gurnell, Petts,
Hannah, Smith, Edwards et al. (2001). In the second and following
entries of the same reference, only the fi rst author is named and all
co-authors are abbreviated as “et al.”. Avoid excessive citations; cite
only essential resources.
In the list, references should be arranged fi rst alphabetically and
then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one
reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identifi
ed by the letters “a”, “b”, “c”, etc. after the year of publication.
The following usage should be confi rmed to:
Reference to a journal publication:
Gurnell, A.M., Petts, G.E., Hannah,
D.M., Smith, B.P.G., Edwards, P.J., Kollmann, J., Ward, J.V., & Tockner,
K. (2001). Riparian vegetation and island formation along the gravelbed
Fiume Tagiamento, Italy. Earth Surface processes and Land Forms,
26, 31–62.
Reference to a book:
Ellenberg, H. (1996). Vegetation Mitteleuropas mit den Alpen. (1st ed.). Stuttgart: Ulmer Verlag.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book: :
Gurr, G.M., Wratten, S.D., & Barbosa, P. (2000). Success in conservation biological control of arthropods. In: G.M. Gurr & S.D. Wratten (Eds.), Biological control: Measures of success (pp. 105–132). Dordrecht: Kluwer