Style Request: Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences (with titles)

jhopwood91
edited May 4, 2017
Hi,

Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences (RSC) now requires the title to be included in the bibliography. Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks!
  • damnation
    edited May 4, 2017
    Hi,
    This would not be a style request, but a style error. ;)
    Looking at the style guide here: http://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/journal-authors-reviewers/prepare-your-article/#format-layout
    For which element should the Title be included?
  • jhopwood91
    My bad, first time posting here.

    It should be included for journal articles.

    Thanks!
  • damnation
    edited May 4, 2017
    The guideline says the following for journal-articles:
    Journal articles should be cited in the form: A. Name, B. Name and C. Name, Journal Title, year, volume, page.
    It currently outputs it like this:
    J. L. Campbell and O. K. Pedersen, Comp. Polit. Stud., 2007, 40, 307–332.
    Seems correct to me.
  • jhopwood91
    edited May 4, 2017
    Yeah I realize that. The associate editor for the journal asked to include the article titles.
    For example from the recent article: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2017/pp/c7pp00054e?page=search

    They now have the format:
    A. Name, B. Name and C. Name, Article Title, Journal Title, year, volume, page
  • adamsmith
    (@damnation -- in case that wasn't clear, obviously direct communication from editor beats the published styleguide)
    @jhopwood91 -- if you could mention this to the editor? It's not great to have something different published than what you actual want.
  • jhopwood91
    @adamsmith Yes of course. It seems to be a new change as it wasn't required a couple months ago when we first submitted.
  • damnation
    edited May 4, 2017
    I don't have access to that journal.
    Can you copy and paste some of the bibliography?
    Further to that, the Photo & Photo style is actually just a dependent style of the main RSC style. So if we change that we'll change about 40 other journals, too (see https://github.com/citation-style-language/journals/blob/master/rsc/_journals.tab).
    Could you check some of the other RSC journals' recent publications if they also follow this new title-including style?
  • jhopwood91
    edited May 4, 2017
    Sure thing

    1 W. L. C. Veer, J. H. Edelhausen, H. G. Wijmenga and J. Lens, Vitamin B12: I. The relation between vitamins B12 and B12b, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1950, 6, 225–228.
  • jhopwood91
    Seems to be the exception to the rule along with Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

    Dalton - No
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics - Yes
    Chem Commun - No
    CrystEngComm - No
    Catalysis Science & Technology - No
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