Less common Vancouver style

biox

Hi-

Unlike most previous posters who seem to struggle to get repeating Vancouver references to use the previous number i.e. 4, 5, 6, 4,

I actually need to use the Vancouver superscript styling, but with unique (note-based) numbers i.e. 4, 5, 6, 7

Can't work out which style to use or how to effectively edit an existing one for this use case despite a fair bit of reading...

Quote from instructions for authors: "References should be in the Vancouver system i.e. referred to by number in the text with superscripted numbers (like so¹) and set out in full in a consecutive numerical list at the end of the paper. When referring to the same book or journal more than once, authors should not revert to the original number. Rather, a different (consecutive) number is inserted. Then, at the end of the paper, the correct style is 'Surname (of author), ref x. above', or if it refers to the reference immediately preceding, 'Ibid' is inserted in the list."

Thanks in advance!

adamsmith

That would be a note style -- you can look through the available ones here: https://www.zotero.org/styles?format=note&dependent=0 but none of them is particularly close to Vancouver.
That said, I looked at the sample articles from Henry Stewart Publications (where I take it the above is from) and the style they're using in the samples has very little to do with Vancouver, so it'd probably be easiest to get the actual style requirements for different reference types and request a new style.

biox

Thank you for the quick reply and advice.

Yes, HSP is the source. Baffled why they mention Vancouver at all in that case.

I will look at requesting / trying to create a new style.