Style request: [Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology]

aspringer
Hello
I would like to use the citation style that is used by the journal Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, it is similar to the style called "ACM SIGCHI conference proceedings", except that the journal name is not italicized, the year is not in parentheses, and the year proceeds the volume number.

This style is described on the journal's webpage instruction to authors, under "references"
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/506086/authorinstructions

[1] Furuya T, Zhong L, Meyer-Fernandes JR, Lu H, Moreno SNJ, Docampo R. Ecto-protein tyrosine phosphatase activity in Trypanosoma cruzi infective stages. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1988;92:339-48.

[2] Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T. Molecular Cloning: a Laboratory Manual. 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1989.

[3] Borst P, Bitter W, Blundell PA, et al. The expression sites for variant surface glycoproteins of Trypanosoma brucei. In: Hide G, Mottram JC, Coombs GH, Holmes PH, editors. Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis: Biology and Control. Oxford: CAB International, 1997;7:109-31.

Abbreviations of journal titles should conform to those adopted by the List of Serial Title Word abbreviations, ISDS International Centre, 20, rue Bachaumont, 75002 Paris, France (ISBN 2-904938-02-8).

Is there already such a style by another name or can this style be created for me?
Thanks
Amy
  • adamsmith
    I'll have a look over the weekend.
  • adamsmith
    go here
    http://gist.github.com/168516
    use the "Raw" link on the top right to download the style.
    Install by dragging to Firefox.

    I haven't tested this extensively and your description of the differences was missing a lot, so this may still not be quite correct - please test and report any remaining issues.
  • aspringer
    Hi Adam
    Sorry about that, I included the web link because I figured they would have more details than I did.
    Thanks for doing this, it is close, here are the differences I found:
    - number in bibliography list should be in brackets "[1]", not "1."
    - no comma after last name (comma after first (or first middle) initial only)
    - no periods in abbreviations of journal titles
    - book titles not italicized
    -edition number for book should be included, as "2nd ed." etc.
    - For a book: "City: Publisher" - no state or country name

    Thanks again
    Also, any way to get Zotero to preserve italics that are in journal titles? (i.e scientific names in biological journals)? I can do it manually but would be nice to have it automatic.

    Amy
  • adamsmith
    OK, I'll fix this, though only some of it unfortunately:

    It is not currently possible to do away with the periods in Journal Abbreviations - Zotero takes what it gets from the respective field (Journal Abbr.)
    This is currently being discussed (search on the forum if you're interested), but will be considerable time before it's implemented.

    Same for the last point - Zotero just takes whatever is in the Place field and has no way to distinguish.

    And no also to your last question - this has long been debated, but I don't know the current state of that debate - the people behind .csl want to make this as general as possible - i.e. rather than marking up something as "italics" you'd mark it as "scientific name" and the style could then decide if it gets put in italics, small caps, underlined etc.

    Might take me a day or two to get to the changes.
  • RintzeRintze
    And no also to your last question - this has long been debated, but I don't know the current state of that debate
    Semantic markup is off the table (for now). The new citeproc-js CSL processor that is scheduled for inclusion in Zotero will support the tags below, which you can enter by hand. Once bibliographies are generated, these tags will be converted to markup. E.g. if a Zotero item has the title "Ca<sup>2+</sup> levels in <i>Homo sapiens</i>", this will end up as "Ca2+ levels in Homo sapiens"

    <i> - italics
    <b> - bold
    <sub> - subscript
    <sup> - superscript
    <sc> - small-caps

    Until then, you can use macros for your word processor, although that's a bit more work and slightly less convenient (but certainly doable, I had no problems with this writing my most recent manuscript). Details for MS Word:
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3875/rich-text-in-titles/?Focus=26555#Comment_26555
  • adamsmith
    I've added the corrected style to the repository. It should come up soon
    with
    http://www.zotero.org/styles/molecular-biochemical-parasitology/dev?install=1
    as the install link.
    I've also changed the version on github above if you're impatient ;-)

    No worries on the incomplete list of differences - but with just the instructions I am stuck with identifying all the differences myself, which means I take a lot more time to write a style which means I can help fewer people.
  • aspringer
    Hi again. I was about to submit to Molecualr and Biochemical Parasitology and discovered one more formatting issue that i had not noticed, the journal does not use an "and" before the last author name in an author list (e.g "Smith JK, Jones DL, White CB." instead of "Smith JK, Jones DL and White CB."), Is this easy to change in the script?
    Thanks

    Amy
  • adamsmith
    updated - thanks for the report
  • aspringer
    OK thanks, but it looks like the updated version hasnt been loaded into the repository- is there somewhere I can access it?
    Thanks
    Amy
  • adamsmith
    https://www.zotero.org/trac/export/5267/csl/molecular-biochemical-parasitology.csl
  • aspringer
    OK, I installed it, and the "and"s are gone, but now there is no comma between authors in two-author citations
  • adamsmith
    sorry about that.
    https://www.zotero.org/trac/export/5273/csl/molecular-biochemical-parasitology.csl
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