Upgrade StorageStyle Request: Oscola
Oxford Standard Citation of Legal Authorities - the standard citation style for UK law journals. Oxford University provides free download for Endnote, but not Zotero:
http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/published/endnote.shtml
Grateful for any assistance! thanks!
http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/published/endnote.shtml
Grateful for any assistance! thanks!
any ideas?
e.g.
The decision in Mullin v Richards 14 confirmed in English law following the Australian case of McHale v Watson.15 . The 15-year-old schoolgirl in the defendant's situation would have realised as much.16
14 Mullin v Richards [1998] 1 WLR 1304 (CA)
15 McHale v Watson (1966) 115 CLR 199
16 Mullin (n 14) 1308
it is footnote 16 i cannot do. it links to footnote 14 (n14)
I'd suggest you leave a space for the note number that can be edited manually at the end - look at the bluebook law review style as an example.
Thanks for the reply.
I am adapting bluebook as my base.
Surely there has to be some way. its seems to be a basic enough request.
The more I build this csl the more i have to leave to edit manually in the end.
Thanks anyway
It also is far from a basic request, because it requires Zotero to get information back from the Word processor and put it into a note. No other citation software (with the possible exception of BibTex, which is by design more closely integrated with its word processor) can do this.
One of the reason csl 1.0 is being created is that Frank Bennett (a law professor himself) was unhappy with the ability of csl to accommodate law styles.
I haveit setup alrite but the big issue is the SUPRAs. Citing from books, book sections, cites, journal articles all work. and the Ibid works.
The supra cant be done as Zotero cant find out what Note number the supra is linked to..... this really kills the advantages zotero brings to Oscola so i dont think i am much good to you.
@AJS2: can you not do the cross reference with word? Ie, insert / cross-reference / to footnote / footnote number?
I created a Zotero Style for Oscola for my personal use. As it has already been said in the forums, it is impossible to create a style that fulfills all the requirements of the Oscola rules. The .csl file I created works only for secondary sources (as the Oscola handbook calls books, book chapters, journal articles, working papers etc.). This means that it doesn’t handle legal cases or legislation (primary sources - actually, it can handle decisions of the European Court of Human Rights). For my purposes, this was enough.
Since it doesn’t cover all the Oscola rules, I am not sure if it is possible to make it available in the Zotero style repository. But if somebody is interested in getting a copy, I can send it by email.
However, three limitations must be mentioned.
(1) As it has been repeatedly stressed in the forums, Zotero is not able to know in which footnote a document has been cited for the first time. My workaround was: every time a document (article, book, book chapter etc,) is cited for the second time, Zotero will inserted a "(n __)" remark. The number of the footnote in which the document has been cited for the first time must be manually added.
(2) The Oscola rules require that the first page of a journal article be mentioned. As far as I could find out, this feature will be implemented in a future version of Zotero (see http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/14707/about-page-ranges-can-it-be-no-range/). For now, I used the variable "page", which must be substituted with the variable "page-first" (in the line 337 of the .csl file) when this is implemented. The variable "page" prints not only the first page, but the whole page range ("first page-last page"). It is thus necessary to remove the "-last page" manually. Using OpenOffice, you can easily do this by searching "regular expressions". Searching for "-[:digit:]+," (without the quotation marks) does the job.
(3) The Oscola rules demand that "when referring to ranges of numbers [for example ranges of pages], use both figures for numbers between ten and twenty, and thereafter use as few figures as possible, but always use at least two for the final number". For instance: 1-6, 11-17, 21-26, 22-32, 121-221, 1782-83, 1782-812 . I couldn’t find out a way to implement this in my .csl file.
As you can see, the Oscola style I have created has a few limitations. Part of them is due to the fact that I didn’t need to work with cases and legislation, so I didn’t try to handle them; and part of them is due to limitations on the csl language.
If you are nevertheless interested, please post a comment here. If someone knows if I can submit an incomplete style to the Zotero repository, please let me know.
Best,
afonsodasilva
It would be good to document the limitations, probably as comments within the source of the style itself, to make things easier for people who go to look at the style in the future and don't know what it doesn't do and why.
thank you for your feedback. I would like to submit the Oscola style, but I wasn't able to find out how. I followed the instructions from www.zotero.org/styles, created a trac account, could browse the dev csl (www.zotero.org/trac/browser/csl/), could see the style tickets (www.zotero.org/trac/report/12) etc., but couldn't find out how to submit a new style. Does anybody know (in details) how to do that?
Thank you in advance,
I joined the Oscola group, but my status does not allow me to submit things to the library ("Library Access: You can only view").
Best,
Many thanks for your effort!!
Sorry for the delay. I uploaded the style as a gist: https://gist.github.com/822142
If someone could upload it to the repository it might help out others.
If you find any errors, please let me know.
Thank you in advance,
Best regards
same here: I'd be extremely interested in even an incomplete OSCOLA. So far I have used Australian Legal Citation - which is close.
bw
I am still unable to upload to the OSCOLA group.
But anyone can download the csl file at GitHub.
I corrected some problems in a new version you can find here: https://gist.github.com/844205
I've sent a request for membership to the group so Paul would be grateful if you could let me join? Don't know what the membership criteria are?
Have downloaded the CSL from github, thanks @afonsodasilva, great job! Have noticed just a few issues which I can help tweak as & when I've a chance.
Does anyone know the people behind Bailii or the Statute Law Database? It would be great if they could be persuaded to tweak their sites to make them more OSCOLA-compatible.
I've downloaded https://gist.github.com/844205
but I don't know what to do with it.
Can it be installed into my current version of Zotero which is 2.1 (or something close to that)
belated thanks to adamsmith for the download link! worked like a charm - until I updated to Firefox 4.0 and Zotero 2.1. Since then when I try to use the style in Word (2007), I get the following error message:
"this style is undefined"
I've tried reinstalling the WinWord integrator and also redownloading the style from the link above - neither works but other styles work fine...
Is the style not compatible with Zotero 2.1? I read in another thread that the old Bluebook style had problems - if the OSCOLA style was adapted from it, would that explain the problem?
Could just be me though :-)
any help would be greatly appreciated!