Upgrade StorageRequest for Update to Weed Science Society of America's Citation Style
I discovered the errors after inserting a bibliography for a term paper and lost some points for a few minor but consistent errors in my literature cited. I looked in the journal and in the directions for contributors to their associated journals and they are consistent with the journal citations but not with Zotero's.
I did make an attempt to try and figure out how to edit it myself but it was too complicated and in a coding format that I am not familiar with.
Here's a summary of the changes that need to be addressed:
1. Authors: after the last name of the author is inserted there is no comma between the last name and the first initials. Only a comma after the initials and the last name of the second author. Also the initials after the first author should continue to be after the last name and not before it. Example:
Pline WA, Wilcut JW, Duke SO, Edmisten KL, Wells RFP (2007)
2. Article Title: the title of the article should not have additional capitalization after the first word unless it is a name (Russia, Nevada, 'Merica, or scientific nomenclature like a genus). Genus names should also be italicized but that isn't too hard to fix. Example:
Pline WA, Wilcut JW, Duke SO, Edmisten KL, Wells RFP (2007) Tolerance and accumulation of shikimic acid in response to glyphosate applications in glyphosate-resistant and nonglyphosate-resistant cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). J Agric Food Chem 50:506-512
That's all for now that I could see. I'll include another example:
Wardell DA, Parkinson D (1990) Influence of herbicide glyphosate on soil microbial community structure. Plant Soil 21:187-204
For my examples I was not able to include italics for the scientific name of cotton and was unable to include the indentation that should be present after the first line of the citation. Otherwise those are exactly as the directions for contributors suggests and is consistent with literature cited in the most recent edition of Weed Science which is a journal of the Weed Science Society of America.
Thank you for considering my request for an update to this citation style. A colleague introduced me to Zotero and it is so much easier to keep things organized compared to my old jump drive and lengthy article title method. Thanks a heap!
-Spencer
I did make an attempt to try and figure out how to edit it myself but it was too complicated and in a coding format that I am not familiar with.
Here's a summary of the changes that need to be addressed:
1. Authors: after the last name of the author is inserted there is no comma between the last name and the first initials. Only a comma after the initials and the last name of the second author. Also the initials after the first author should continue to be after the last name and not before it. Example:
Pline WA, Wilcut JW, Duke SO, Edmisten KL, Wells RFP (2007)
2. Article Title: the title of the article should not have additional capitalization after the first word unless it is a name (Russia, Nevada, 'Merica, or scientific nomenclature like a genus). Genus names should also be italicized but that isn't too hard to fix. Example:
Pline WA, Wilcut JW, Duke SO, Edmisten KL, Wells RFP (2007) Tolerance and accumulation of shikimic acid in response to glyphosate applications in glyphosate-resistant and nonglyphosate-resistant cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). J Agric Food Chem 50:506-512
That's all for now that I could see. I'll include another example:
Wardell DA, Parkinson D (1990) Influence of herbicide glyphosate on soil microbial community structure. Plant Soil 21:187-204
For my examples I was not able to include italics for the scientific name of cotton and was unable to include the indentation that should be present after the first line of the citation. Otherwise those are exactly as the directions for contributors suggests and is consistent with literature cited in the most recent edition of Weed Science which is a journal of the Weed Science Society of America.
Thank you for considering my request for an update to this citation style. A colleague introduced me to Zotero and it is so much easier to keep things organized compared to my old jump drive and lengthy article title method. Thanks a heap!
-Spencer
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The style does 2) correctly, the problem is your data in Zotero. See https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing for details.
For italics in titles see: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/rich_text_bibliography
Your style should automatically update within 24 hours. As for the indenting, the style should already be using a hanging-indent for bibliographic entries that have multiple lines, and that works for me in Zotero.
Correct, the indentation does work. The tab key just doesn't work in these comment boxes and I didn't feel like using the space bar to get the point across. Thanks for taking care of that for me... and other weed scientist. That was much swifter than I had anticipated!