Style Correction - Freshwater Science

BrookeCassell

Hi, I'm a tech editor for Freshwater Science, and we'd love to update the Zotero style to match our current literature cited guidelines. If you need me to tie in our Editor in Chief, Charles Hawkins, I'm happy to do so.

Here are the items I see that are incorrect:

1. We require upper and lower-case letters for author names, but the style generates author names in all caps (large & small caps).

2. We capitalize the first word after a colon or dash. (I'm not sure if that is something that the style generator can do anyhow or if it needs to be done manually by authors when saving a document.)

3. For gray literature (e.g., technical reports), we require the source location at the end of the citation in parentheses following "Available from:". For physical address there is a period inside the parentheses. For URL there is no period and the address should not break across lines. For example (URL):

Bryant, M. D. 1991. The Copper River Delta pulse study: An interdisciplinary survey of aquatic habitats. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-282. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture, Portland, Oregon. (Available from: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d029749523?urlappend=;seq=3)

And hardcopy:
Baird, D. J., and I. Barber. 2000. Stream periphyton monitoring manual. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Christchurch, NewZealand. (Available from: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, P. O. Box 8602, Christchurch, New Zealand.)

Thanks so much,

Brooke Cassell

damnation

Hi,

1. small-caps: removed
2. If I understand correctly you want that the "when" is capitalised, like in this example?
Mares, I. 2001. Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers? Pages 184–213 in P. A. Hall and D. Soskice (editors). Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage. Oxford University Press, New York.

It's possible. For that the short-title field in Zotero has to have the first part of the title before the colon filled in (exact match), then it will recognise the 2nd half of the title if the title variable is set with text-case="sentence" (if I remember this correctly).

I changed that setting now. Please test.

Further info here: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing

3.
Reports: added URL field. (that physical address you'll need to try if you can just add that in the URL field to get it rendered in. I don't see another way of doing this)


extra: made a few smaller changes to make the style more robust. Please double check the style in general that it renders everything correctly.


Draft: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/64f9520f8f616e168f6f94cd22d874e9e5ef71ca/freshwater-science.csl


Could I ask you to include our CSL style in your author guidelines page similar to the way you did it for EndNote. This link would be good: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:freshwater-science

BrookeCassell

Thanks so much! That was incredibly fast.

A couple other things I see:


2. (from above) - The capital letter after a colon fix doesn't seem to have worked. They are still showing up lowercase.

4. The gray literature citation now includes (Available from: www.website). That period after the parentheses needs to be deleted.

5. I also notice that when I create a bibliographic entry for a report, the Report Number field is not included. It should be as follows:

Morrison, P. H., and F. J. Swanson. 1990. Fire history and pattern in a cascade range landscape. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-254, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon. (Available from: https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/5627)

where General Technical Report is the Report Type (and that currently shows up) and PNW-GTR-254 is the Report Number (which currently does not show up). So there should not be a comma after the Report Type, but there should be a comma after the Report Number.

Are these possible? Thank you!

damnation

2. capital for subtitle: works for me now. Make sure you have the short title filled in, otherwise it doesn't work.
4. dot removed
5. report number now shown

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/f0d97dab8cf659b4e1aff9eb0faa6043b95ec6b4/freshwater-science.csl

bwiernik

@dstillman Can you add freshwater-science.csl to the list of styles following APA-like capitalization? (@damnation that will make the short title unnecessary)

BrookeCassell

Thanks so much @damnation, @bwiernik, and @dstillman. Looks great! There is still a comma after the Report Type field, but I think we can handle that.

We'll add the Zotero style link to our Instructions for Authors.

Thanks!

ETA, we'll add the link after it's uploaded in the Zotero repository.

damnation

That's fixed.

You can already include the link on your website as the style is already on the repository. The link doesn't change when you make changes.

BrookeCassell

Ok, thanks. Is there anything else I need to do to have the new, revised code uploaded to the repository?

damnation

No, give it a day or two and it'll be merged.

dstillman

@dstillman Can you add freshwater-science.csl to the list of styles following APA-like capitalization?

Done in the Zotero beta (and on ZoteroBib).