Collapsed In Text Citations - Changing en-dash to hyphen

frasermorgan

Is it possible to change the en-dash to hyphen for collapsed citations.

i.e. instead of 1–7, it would b 1-7.

We are writing a funding application with strict world limits and en-dashes make the citation 2 words while hyphens keep it to 1 word.

If it cant be done, we will just convert them after we create the biliography.

Thanks!

damnation

Which style are you using?

But generally you would either add a "locale" section between the info section and the first macro like this (assuming you're using a style in English):

<locale xml:lang="en">
<terms>
<term name="page-range-delimiter">-</term>
</terms>
</locale>


Or if there is already one you just add the line starting with "term name..." to the locale section.

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

frasermorgan

Thanks @damnation

I am using the APA Numeric reference type as built by @bwiernik (If you read this - thanks for this CSL it was exactly what I needed!) here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-numeric.csl

As there was already the "locale" "en" section in there, I added in the

<term name="page-range-delimiter">-</term>

line but unfortunately, this does not change the way in which the in-text citations are collapsed (i.e. its still printing them as Smith(1–7) (with en-dash), rather than Smith(1-7) (with hyphen)).

Does that line only change the page ranges in the bibliography or should it have an effect on the in-text citations?

Thanks again for any assistance.

adamsmith

Yes, pretty sure the collapse delimiter can't be customized, sorry. (the page-range-delimiter should impact page numbers in citations, but not other ranges such as page numbers)

frasermorgan

Thanks @adamsmith, that what I was thinking but it was good to check. I appreciate all of the assistance.

bwiernik

When you are ready to submit, you could do find-and-replace in Word to change all en dashes to hyphens.