Modify citation style from footnote to parenthesis

walde · September 30, 2019

I have a very specific citation style that is available within the Zotero Style repository. It is called "Swedish Legal". It is currently a footnote based style. I want to take this exact style and I want it to write out the same information in parenthesis. This for a special publication that it is necessary for us to do this.

The reason I want to use "Swedish legal" instead of an established style that uses parenthesis is because it correctly writes out the publication name (instead of author) of legal documents produced by the Swedish government.

Can anyone please help?

damnation · September 30, 2019

1. Open the file in an editor
2. change in line 2> from class="note" to "in-text"
3. line 13: same here for citation-format
4. Line 109: change to layout delimiter="; " prefix="(" suffix=")"

General instructions> https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

Make sure to change the file ID, self link and file name as explained there. Otherwise the style gets overwritten again.

adamsmith · September 30, 2019

line 13 should actually be changed to "author-date" not "in-text" -- the style will work either way, but Zotero will throw an error on install with in-text

damnation · September 30, 2019

Thanks.

walde · September 30, 2019

Thank you very much for your help, adamsmith and damnation!