need citation style

Philipp.Nuske

Hi,

our company would like to give zotero a try. However, the citation and bibliography style should not change:

- [1] (in text)
- [1] Author, Title, Date (in bibliography)
- words (like "accessed on ...") should be in german.

I searched extensively on http://editor.citationstyles.org/about/

The closest, I could find, was IEEE
(http://editor.citationstyles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zotero.org%2Fstyles%2Fieee)

However, there are a couple of, say, not perfect issues:
- We would like all titles to be without quotation marks
- We would like all types to have coma as delimiter
- If there is no date specified, the fullstop should be after the title (current output is "title. ." )
- If dates were specified in a german style (27. Nov. 2016 rather than 27-Nov-2016) that would be a dream come true.

Can somebody help me in achieving this?

Thanks a great deal in advance

cheers
Philipp

adamsmith

Could you clarify what you're looking for in terms of help? Pointers to code? Someone to do this for you? Someone to hire to do this for you?

Philipp.Nuske

all of the above would be greatly appreciated. Th order in my wishlist would be:
- pointer to existing style (which I might have missed)
- someone who adoptes an existing style
- someone to hire (depending on pricce, I guess)
- pointers to instructions.

However, a very important issue is stability. We would like to adopt a style, which is easy to apply and which does not break with the next new version.

thanks

adamsmith

1. How is Vancouver Brackets? And have you seen http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/
Note that even styles that are set to English as default are trivially easy to switch, so don't worry about the term language.
2. Given limited time, I spend all the time I'm volunteering on high-impact styles, mostly journals and some major styleguides (e.g. currently the MLA 8th edition). Not sure if there's someone else.
3. I don't know if there are other people, but I'm definitely the industry leader in coding custom CSL styles (it's a very small industry ;). If you have a styleguide, I can give you an exact quote. Generally it'll range between $150 (some small tweaks to an existing style) to $300 (very unusual or including lots of item types, including many legal ones). e-mail here: http://www.sebastiankarcher.com/curriculum-vitae/
4. Instructions: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

Any valid CSL style will keep working -- I don't want to say forever, but a very long time. If we release a new CSL version that's not backward compatible (and if we do that, it won't be soon), we will also provide an XSLT file that will allow one-click conversion.

Philipp.Nuske

thanks for the answer!

I used http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ a lot, but could not find anything matching.

vancouver brackets is not really what we are looking for:
- no complete date in bibliography (type document) (we would need that for stuff like meeting minutes)
- in bibliography no brackets "[]" around citation number
- only german date style in web citation (law: Mai 2, 2013, document: 2015, report: 2012 Nov)

thanks for info and quote, sounds really fair.

Would it also be an option, for us to adopt a style and pay you proof-reading of the code?

adamsmith

Would it also be an option, for us to adopt a style and pay you proof-reading of the code?

generally yes, but I'm not sure you're better off doing that -- but if you're interested, let's continue this over e-mail (gerne auch auf Deutsch), I don't want to spam the forums with business negotiations ;)