Bibliography style: no et al, sort by publication date

TobiboT

Hi everyone,

I am looking for a bib-style that shows all authors instead of "et al", and where items are consistently sorted by the date of the publication. Unfortunately, I did not find a style that meets the requirements.

I have tried for example vancouver-brackets-no-et-al, however entries are not sorted by publication date.

Can someone maybe recommend an existing style? Thanks!

adamsmith

you mean sorted by author, then by date, yes?
There are dozens that fulfill that, e.g. the pre-installed Elsevier Harvard style https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:elsevier-harvard

TobiboT

Thanks, but I mean first by date (maybe then by author, if that applies). Are there any styles for that too?

adamsmith

The only style that does that is https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:apa-cv
and that uses et al for >7 authors
what's the use case?

TobiboT

Thanks for the help, adamsmith.

We would like to embed the described bibliography on the homepage of our research department. So in our case, a listing of all authors is desired, and the most recent publications should be listed first in the created bibliography.

Would it be a solution to add another style / modify an existing style in the zotero repository that works for the described scenario?

adamsmith

you'd definitely want to modify a style, but we probably wouldn't take it for the repository. You wouldn't need it on the repository, though, would you?

TobiboT

Up to now, we intended to generate the bibliography via the zotero web api and then work with it from there. I figured the web api could only be used with styles from the repository. Or is there maybe another way?

adamsmith

the web API can use externally hosted styles -- I'd have to check where that's documented, but I know that it's possible (I think it's as easy as using a URL instead of a filename)

TobiboT

Thanks, that sounds great. Any documentation on this topic would be helpful for us.

adamsmith

Yes, documented here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/basics#parameters_for_format_bib_includecontent_bib_includecontent_citation you just use the remote URL of the style. I put it on github, e.g., click on "Raw" and then use the displayed URL, but you can also just host the file on your website. It doesn't need to be served with the right mimeType, even, just needs to be valid CSL

TobiboT

Nice, we will definitely give it a shot. Thanks again.

TobiasNorajitra

@adamsmith We have done it in the meantime, and it works perfectly.