Style Request: journal "Comparativ"

edited November 27, 2020
Dear Zotero users, I have to submit a paper to the journal Comparativ
They have their own style which does not resemble anything I know. Please, could you help ?

About the style : https://www.comparativ.net/v2/about/submissions
ISSN : ISSN 0940-3566
No In-text citation: complete reference in the footnote
Journal :
J. L. Campbell and O. K. Pedersen, The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success, in: Comparative Political Studies 40 (2007) 3, pp. 307-332.

Book chapter:
I. Mares, Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers?, in: P. A. Hall and D. Soskice (eds.), Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage, New York 2001, pp. 184-213.

Example of free online article : https://www.comparativ.net/v2/article/view/518/440
  • Please, see instruction on https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles - developers of new styles need a correct format of citations of Mares and Campbell & Pedersen papers.
  • It is corrected, sorry, I had not read the instructions carefully enough
  • @frcsriv
    I have made a first draft of the style which you can get here.
    Right click, save as, and install via a double click/menu.

    Let me know if anything needs fixing. Ideally in the form "current vs. wanted" for each item type. The style is generally adapted for books, chapters, articles, reports, websites.

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/9bc2dd931e397af8637ee0ff9412c37f6f905064/comparativ.csl
  • @damnation Thank you very, very much for this style ! I will try it out and let you know
  • @damnation You have done a very good job, I am very grateful ! I had tried things myself but it remained very far from a good result.

    However, there are a few problems to fix.
    1) The main problem is about the date for books or chapters :
    Current : B. Geremek, Le salariat dans l’artisanat parisien aux XIIIe-XVe siècles : étude sur le marché de la main d’œuvre au Moyen Âge, (1968), Paris 1968
    vs:
    B. Geremek, Le salariat dans l’artisanat parisien aux XIIIe-XVe siècles : étude sur le marché de la main d’œuvre au Moyen Âge, Paris 1968.

    2) There is also a pb for repeated citations. Instead of "Ibid., 2-3" (without "p"), I have "[CSL STYLE ERROR: reference with no printed form.]"

    3) If it was possible to adapt the style for "thesis" too, it would be great.
    The principle given by the journal is :
    Author, Title, Thesis Type, Place of Presentation, Year or Date, Page(s).

    The example given is :
    J. Smith, War Crimes in International Law, LL.M. thesis, George Washington University School of Law, 2000, pp. 1-76.

    Thanks again !
  • edited January 17, 2021
    Thanks for reviewing and following my request for how to. :)

    1. chapter: fixed

    2. ibid. changed some stuff. please check. On my work computer where I don't have Zotero or Word to test it.

    3. Thesis is adapted now. Please check, and also reports. Uses the same conditional.

    https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/09e11c6cc2b7762fc58a75bd506f510cc02190ce/comparativ.csl
  • 1. Thanks a lot, everything is fine.

    2. Ibid works only if I give a "locator" (page number), not if I quote a whole book again. But maybe we are not supposed to do that... Anyway, it is now a minor problem. One detail : after Ibid., Comparativ does not want "p." before the page number.
    Current : Ibid., p. 76.
    vs. Ibid., 76.
    I might be able to fix that myself but since your are editing an official style...

    3. Thesis works perfectly. I think that "reports" does too, but I have no "report" in my database/library.

    4. Thank you very much again ! This will save me a lot of time at the end of the article I have been writing...
  • We checked the ibid issue (1) and can't reproduce.
    Please test it out in a fresh document.

    Re the "p. " label. We can do that, but I just assumed that was a mistake in the guidelines. It's very unusual!

    I'd just submit and if they pick up on something we'll fix it, you can update the style with a click and you'll be fine.
  • I'm seeing most articles with the p./pp. label after ibid., so let's leave this in -- I do agree that using the label for citations but not for ibid. is oddly inconsistent.
  • This is fine with me. Thank you again ! Do you think we should suggest that they offer this zotero style along with their guidelines ?
  • Yeah, we would appreciate if you could communicate it to the journal that this style is available for Zotero, Mendeley etc.
    They can link to it with this link: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:comparativ
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