Cannot edit style

Periquet_Stephanie

Good day,

I ma new to Zotero and I am trying to edit the Journal of Animal Ecology style (which date back to 2013...) but I can't manage. In the style editor window, on the top right list, I only have access to a few of the styles I downloaded. For instance, Journal of Zoology is also absent. If I open the cal file with a text application I have the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>



Journal of Animal Ecology
http://www.zotero.org/styles/journal-of-animal-ecology





0021-8790
1365-2656
2013-03-29T23:50:45+00:00
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License



What can I do about this?

Thanks!
Stephanie

PS: I run Zotero 5.0.47 on MacOS High Sierra 0.13.4

damnation

Go here: http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByName/
Search for journal-of-animal-ecology. there you could click on edit and edit the style. You'll see though that it's actually a dependent style. You would need to edit that or make your own independent style.

What seems to be wrong with the style? Maybe we can help here.

Periquet_Stephanie

Hi and thanks for the quick reply.
I did as suggested and the style is the exact same as the one I downloaded directly here: https://www.zotero.org/styles. It was last updated in 2013. Clicking on edit style doesn't do anything for me though...

I still can't see the style preview in cite/styles/style preview. I then download the independent parent style (http://www.zotero.org/styles/british-ecological-society), which I can see in preview and does seem to be correct given the journal specifications.
So what I did is simply copy paste the content from the parent style into the Journal of Animal Ecology style and saved it as a custom style I can now edit as I wish!

damnation

Good.

What is wrong with the style though? We'd prefer to make these changes for all the 1000s of users of CSL styles rather than just one single person. ;)

Periquet_Stephanie

I think all is ok with the style actually. I just checked with the journal requirements and all seems in order. I'll let you know if anything comes up.