Style error: Australian Guide to Legal Citation (Blog Post)

gabs_00

Hi, I'm not sure if anyone else has had this issue but the 'Blog Post' category in the AGLC style appears to be generating citations incorrectly.

I need to use the Blog Post category to reference social media posts and at the moment, I am receiving incomplete citations.

The relevant rule is found at 6.15.7 - 'Blogs and Online Forums' and requires the template:

Author of Post, 'Title of Post' on Author of Blog/Forum, Blog/Forum Name (Full Date of Post)

However, despite completing the relevant fields, the citation output is currently only:

Author, 'Title'

If anyone could offer any advice about how to fix this, that would be great!

StinaW

Hi there,

If you enter these under item type 'Newspaper Article' and apply the following workarounds you get what you need (even if it ain't pretty):

Title field - Title of Post
Author field - Author of post
Publication field - on Author of Blog details within html italics tags with comma, then Blog/Forum name outside tags (this field is italicised so adding tags to the first part will cancel that out)
Place field - Full date
Url field - url

Let me know if this doesn't make sense. I'm sure there's a better way to do it, but it works.

AGLC4 will be published soon this is a good one to fix with a new style.

gabs_00

Hi StinaW,

Thank you so much for the fix - much appreciated! It will definitely do the job :)

damnation

This is something that should be fixed in the style though, so I'll look into that over the next weeks. (keep an eye on this thread)

damnation

@StinaW and @gabs_00
I had a quick go at this (blogpost was not at all defined in this style, so let's get this fixed). Could you please review carefully? I don't have the guidelines and it makes me wonder why they don't want the URL added for blogposts.
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/0b380d5a16f12bf8b38ba9a0704b112b165ae70c/australian-guide-to-legal-citation.csl

StinaW

AGLC3 wants url for blogposts (free page is offline at the moment but available through the Wayback Machine - printed page 119/Section 6.15.7
https://web.archive.org/web/20180703053038/https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/1586203/FinalOnlinePDF-2012Reprint.pdf ) I'll have a look at your link now.

@damnation, I work with this style a lot and have a collection of document types that don't work well and my workarounds. I'd like to address these at the same time as having a go at creating a style for AGLC 4. Should I start a new thread to see what else people want amended? I'd appreciate input of others plus I'm new to csl and could do with the guidance.

damnation

Hi @StinaW
Try this newer version: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/38648d739760fa7257bdbd595eba7e9967886075/australian-guide-to-legal-citation.csl

AGLC4, I'll let Adamsmith answer that.

StinaW

Thanks again @damnation

I tried your second version and it is much closer. User would still need to italicise the Blog title manually and add the Blog Author (as distinct from post author) info to the blog titile field.
Where blog authors are different to post authors, would it be possible to distinguish that with the 'contributor' author option?

damnation

@adamsmith
What do you think we could do here for the "Blog Author"?

bwiernik

So this is supposed to be something like a guest post on someone else’s blog? That seems like an absurd level of detail. But you could use container-author for the “Blog Author”.

adamsmith

I've made the changes and this now does the "on" and the italics for blogposts, but the blog author thing is just silly; no other style does that and their example makes no sense (listing the author twice, once as a blog author, once as a personal author), so I'm not going to add that.

gabs_00

Thank you for the changes made - the style is showing up correctly now!

Much appreciated and sorry that I neglected to include that the blog post URL was required in my original post.

Thank you @StinaW @damnation and @adamsmith