Current Infectious Dis Rep AND Springer Vancouver styles: suppressing periods after journal abbrev

nguyenlynn

What is the best way to remove the periods that are automatically added to journal abbreviations? The two styles I'm referring to specifically are 1) Current Infectious Diseases Reports and 2) Springer - Vancouver (brackets). Thanks in advance!

adamsmith

Are those styles incorrect given relevant publisher/journal instructions or would you just like to remove them for customization?
For the latter, you'd have to add strip-periods="true" to the line with <text variable="container-title" form="short"/>

nguyenlynn

The Current Infectious Diseases Reports style is incorrect given the publisher author instructions. I am not sure about the Springer - Vancouver (brackets) style.

Is there a guide on how to customize a style? The instructions you provided sound easy enough but I'm not sure where to place that text. Thanks!

adamsmith

Does this help? https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

adamsmith

We'll check & fix for Current Infectious Diseases Reports

damnation

current-infectious-disease-reports is a dependent of springer-vancouver-brackets.

I've put in a fix.

nguyenlynn

I tried to follow those editing instructions but it looks like the springer-vancouver-brackets style already has all of the appropriate text on that line. I'm not sure why the periods are still showing up.

I will wait for the style to be fixed. How long does this typically take?

Thanks so much!

damnation

Right click and save as this file and install: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/POBrien333/styles/9e927723b6bf8623f8932ec75b59cf15cf6a3c1c/springer-vancouver-brackets.csl

You can see the changes I made here to learn :) : https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/3297/files

nguyenlynn

It worked perfectly. Thanks so much for your help!

damnation

@nguyenlynn
The change was reviewed, so the parent style and the depent styles will all update within 24h now.

Thanks again for reporting the mistake in the style.