Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics - page number

ilef19

Hello everyone,

I'm using the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics for my dissertation and have just faced a problem when adding a page number to a citation.
When e.g. citing a direct quote I would like to add the reference like this:
(Rüschoff, Sudhoff & Wolff 2015: 23) 
But, unfortunately, Zotero (Word addi-in) gives me: (Rüschoff, Sudhoff & Wolff 2015:23) -> so without the blank space after the colon.

Is there any chance I can change that in the settings? I've found the editor but am not sure how to change things.

I would be very thankful for your help!

bwiernik

Does the style guide specify that there should be a space?

ilef19

The actual style sheet (which is available for download) doesn't refer to this at all but all linguistics books journals etc. use a space after the colon...

enozkan

This page elaborates on the style, and specifies the space after the colon:

https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/pdf/GenericStyleRules.pdf

See last sentence on page 5, and examples throughout: "The page numbers follow the year after a colon and a space, and they are given with complete numbers (no digits dropped)."

bwiernik

In that case, we can just get the style fixed.

Here is the fixed style:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/630ca14a0887363acb2d81b8dec96bc16eed9846/unified-style-sheet-for-linguistics.csl

The official style will likely be updated within a few days.

bwiernik

The official style is now fixed and will update in Zotero within 24 hours.

Quimeta

hi all, I realise this might be an odd question, but what would I need to do to remove that space between the year of publication and the page number in the in-text references, which has been removed in the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics? I am finishing up my dissertation and it has been suggested to me to do so to lower the word count. Is there a quick way to do so? thanks!

adamsmith

Find
layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=": ">

change to this
layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=":">
(i.e. remove the space after the colon in the 2nd line)
General instructions here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

Quimeta

perfect, it works! thank you very much :)