CSL design issue

YuKornilev · November 8, 2016

I am trying to create a CSL style for a journal that has the following requirements:

Author A. V., C. P. Author Year. Title. Etc.
Author A. V., B. B. Author and C. P. Author Year. Title. Etc.

(two authors separated by comma; 2+ separated by comma EXCEPT the last one, separated only by AND)

I've tried multiple options and looked at CSL specs, but I cannot solve this riddle...
Is this possible given current 1.0.1 specs or I am missing the right code?

Thank you in advance!

Gracile · November 8, 2016

I don't think it's possible.
Though you can use the attributes and="text" and delimiter-precedes-last="never" to get your second citation, this won't display correctly your first citation because the attribute "and" is all-or-nothing, i.e you can't have it only for more than two authors.

http://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#name

YuKornilev · November 8, 2016

Thank you, that was my understanding as well... Again - manual checking at the end will be the solution..

Gracile · November 8, 2016

But can you provide a link to the style documentation / requirements ?

YuKornilev · November 8, 2016

These are the Instructions for authors: http://acta-zoologica-bulgarica.eu/downloads/acta-zoologica-bulgarica/instructions-authors.pdf

Gracile · November 8, 2016

@Rintze or @adamsmith may have an opinion on this.

Rintze · November 8, 2016

I can't remember ever having seen this particular requirement, and I agree it's not possible to implement with the current version of CSL. If anybody is aware of any other journals that require this (preferably from other publishers), we might put it on the list for the next version of CSL.