modify Vancouver to allow more authors

jsava
I am submitting a manuscript to Journal of Trauma. They insist that it should be in Vancouver, but with up to 10 authors listed before "et al". They mention that this is an easy modification in EndNote, but I can't figure out how to do it in Zotero. I certainly am not going to write a bunch of code, which is what I found in my Googling.
Any help appreciated.
  • adamsmith
    The easiest way to do this is code, but it's definitely not "a bunch". You would just need to change two numbers, specifically
    et-al-min="7" et-al-use-first="6" to et-al-min="11" et-al-use-first="10"

    See https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step for general instructions -- don't forget to change the style ID as described.
  • jsava
    Thanks for the help. Seemed very promising, and kinda fun. Changed the code, pasted it into style editor, saved it with new name. Tried to add it from Zotero, but it won't add. I hit the "+" button, selected it, and hit "open", but it doesn't make it's way onto the list of styles..
  • adamsmith
    Make sure to change the title and id at the top of the style. Note that whatever you use for id doesn't have to be an existing URL. It just needs to be different from any existing style.
  • jsava
    that also seemed promsing, but got this:
    An unexpected error occurred while installing "/Users/jacksava/Zotero/styles/vancouver-superscript-10-auth.csl"
  • adamsmith
    Could you select all + copy the code and paste it to https://hastebin.com/ , save and post the URL here so I can take a look?

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