Style Error: [Archives de pédiatrie]

claire_bar · February 26, 2016

I've noticed a few discrepencies between the available "Archives de pédiatrie" style, a french journal, and the guidelines provided by the journal, which can be found here : http://ees.elsevier.com/arcped/

1. Guidelines state that "Up to three authors, the first three should be mentioned by name. If there are more than three, the first three are cited, followed by “et al.” That is not the case with the actual style.

2. In pages, the en dash has to be an hyphen (short dash)..

Current output:
[1] Adachi M, Tachibana K, Masuno M, Makita Y, Maesaka H, Okada T, et al. Clinical characteristics of children with hypoparathyroidism due to 22q11.2 microdeletion. Eur J Pediatr 1998;157:34–8.

ARCPED guidelines :
[1] Adachi M, Tachibana K, Masuno M, et al. Clinical characteristics of children with hypoparathyroidism due to 22q11.2 microdeletion. Eur J Pediatr 1998;157:34-8.

Thank you so much for your help!

DWL-SDCA · February 26, 2016

I think that the information you have provided above should be sufficient for initiating the changes to the existing style. The volunteers who do the style work have been very busy lately but will soon reply to your post.

To others who read this post and are requesting _new_ styles:

See:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles

Especially follow this instruction--

The following two citations - for a journal article and a book chapter - correctly formatted according to the style you're requesting (they're provided here in APA). Please provide exactly these citations, correctly formatted, not any example for a journal and book chapter.

Campbell, J. L., & Pedersen, O. K. (2007). The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success. Comparative Political Studies, 40(3), 307–332. doi:10.1177/0010414006286542

Mares, I. (2001). Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers? In P. A. Hall & D. Soskice (Eds.), Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage (pp. 184–213). New York: Oxford University Press.

As this is frequently misunderstood, please make sure that your post contains a bibliography entry for the Mares book chapter and the Campbell & Pedersen journal article. Otherwise we'll ask you to add those, delaying the process.

adamsmith · February 26, 2016

thanks, and yes, this is bookmarked. We actually don't need the sample references to correct smallish errors.
They're only helpful for new styles and for styles that are completely wrong.