CSL Month / Date Month

binegreg

Hey, I rewrote an APA-code, so it suits for my University.

I have one Problem left: I need a way to get the following:
If there is a date with month:
Muster, M. (1996, 21. Mai). Titel Magazinartikel. Publikation, S. 12-13.
If there is only a month:
Muster, M. (1996, Mai). Titel Magazinartikel. Publikation, S. 12-13.

The first one is correct, with the second one I get:
Muster, M. (1996. Mai). Titel Magazinartikel. Publikation, S. 12-13.

I know I need to tell the Programm: if there is no date -> do this
But I'm no programmer, so I and 100 other students would be super happy for your help :)

This is my code:

binegreg

Sry, it was not displayed as desired…
All lines that stop with >, begin with <

macro name="issued">
choose>
if type="bill legal_case legislation" match="any"/>
else-if variable="issued">
group>
date variable="issued">
date-part name="year"/>
/date>
text variable="year-suffix"/>
choose>
if type="article article-magazine article-newspaper broadcast interview pamphlet personal_communication post post-weblog treaty webpage" match="any">
date variable="issued">
date-part prefix=", " name="day"/>
date-part prefix=". " name="month"/>
/date>
/if>
!-- Only year: article-journal chapter entry entry-dictionary entry-encyclopedia dataset figure graphic motion_picture manuscript map musical_score paper-conference patent report review review-book song speech thesis -->
/choose>
/group>
/else-if>
else-if variable="status">
group>
text variable="status" text-case="lowercase"/>
text variable="year-suffix" prefix="-"/>
/group>
/else-if>
else>
group>
text term="no date" form="short"/>
text variable="year-suffix" prefix="-"/>
/group>
/else>
/choose>
/macro>

binegreg

Or is there a citation-style that already works this way? So I could include the code

damnation

The conditional to print "no date" or the "date" would look like this in it's minimal form:

<macro name="date">
<choose>
<if match="any" is-uncertain-date="issued">
<text term="no date"/>
</if>
<else>
<date variable="issued">
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>


Adapt as necessary.

binegreg

Thank you for your answer!

Where do I need to add this? So far it hasn't changed anything when I tried. I also didn't find any hints in the forum how to do it...

damnation

I gave you an example how this could be implemented in its minimal form.
You can see a real example here. Lines 171... https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/academy-of-management-review.csl

It all depends on the style you use. We'd need to see that to give better advice. You can upload your code to a code sharing tool like hastebin or pastebin and share the link here.