Annotated bibliography style not supported by csl repository -- options

Is there a way to host a style that can be accessed using zotero.org (not the desktop app) if that style cannot be hosted in the official style repository? I can provide context if needed, but thought I'd keep the question simple in case there is a simple answer.
  • You mean for use in the web library? No, that's not possible. Some context might help to see what is possible (e.g. the API does allow for custom styles).
  • Context: I am using zotero with students in a class. Everything is remote, because pandemic. Many students are using Chromebooks. Also I don't want to troubleshoot the Zotero desktop app remotely. So I decided we would work with zotero.org, and skip the desktop experience. We are also using ZotPress to display bibliographies in WordPress. We are doing annotated bibliographies in Chicago Author-Date style -- non-negotiable. (We are doing the bibliography only, not in-text citations). The csl repository has a chicago style, but it is bib-note, which renders bib entries differently. I made a chicago author-date style that works and validates (only requires one standard line of code added to the traditional chicago author-note style). But then I searched the github forum and the zotero forum, and concluded that they would not add another annotated style to the repository (because they said as much in an earlier forum post). So I have all the pieces, but don't know if I can connect them. It would be quite easy if the annotated Chicago author-date style could be added to the repository. If advised to, I'll submit that request, but the forum discussions were pretty definitive -- no further annotated styles will be added (see esp https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/3317). Would an API work for my case?

  • You can use custom styles in ZotPress by uploading the style (e.g. to your own github) and then using the full (Raw) link to the style in the ZotPress style selection, so something like

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adam3smith/custom-csl/master/harvard-kmu-adademie-und-management-ag.csl

    I think I recall that this doesn't like redirects, so make sure to use the final URL and note the one displayed when you use copy link on Raw in github (e.g. https://github.com/adam3smith/custom-csl/raw/master/harvard-kmu-adademie-und-management-ag.csl )
  • Thanks, that worked.
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