National library of medicine in alphabetical order

scocking

I've seen previous posts that have been able to alter coding in zotero to put reference citation styles in alphabetical order.
I plan to submit an article to MSSE which uses this style.

Can anybody alter the code for National library of medicine so that the bibliography displays alphabetically?

Thanks in advance!

bwiernik

Can you post a link to the author guidelines for MSSE stating this requirement?

scocking

Thanks for your response.

Website states:

"The reference list shall be in alphabetic order (rather than in the order of citation) and numbered. There shall not be more than 40 references for original investigations. Review articles are limited to 75 references. All references shall appear in the text. The format for references is that which has been adopted by the United States National Library of Medicine"

scocking

http://edmgr.ovid.com/msse/accounts/ifauth.htm

Link attached

damnation

Hi @scocking
This is nothing out of the ordinary, so we can make this style and add it to the repo.
Can you please provide all the requests here as that will make it a lot easier for us and then you can write your paper.
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles

adamsmith

(I don't think you'll need sample citations. These really are straight Vancouver/NLM)

bwiernik

Yes, the only difference from NLM is the sort order.

scocking

Yes, correct.

It is simply the order (non-alphabetical) of the bibliography that is the issue. Nothing needs changing to the formatting of the NLM reference itself. I have previously seen @adamsmith use this trick for someone with Vancouver a year or 2 ago.

damnation

This style actually already exists... since 2015.
Luckily it wasn't that much work. Just submitted it and it told me it exists already.
https://www.zotero.org/styles/medicine-and-science-in-sports-and-exercise

For anybody else in the future, this is what you need to add within the bibliography section before the "layout" section:

<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<key variable="title"/>
</sort>

scocking

Thanks for the assistance and information!

Sorry for not realising. I spent a solid 5 hours searching through info before i left a message on the forum today to try and avoid that happening!

The publication is now formatted correctly! Many thanks.

JThorg

Hello, I'm trying to do exactly this and cannot figure out how to get my references to be formatted in National library of medicine in alphabetical order. I tried the medicine and science in sports and exercise style above but it wasn't in alphabetical order. Are you able to assist with this? The journal I'm submitting to is Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. Thank you.

damnation

What's wrong with the style on our repository?

https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:aerospace-medicine-and-human-performance