Upgrade StorageVancouver style possibly wrong?
Was wondering if anyone else notices that some of the automatic citation styles in zotero are quite incorrect once checked against the source reference?
Here is what Vancouver looks like according to Zotero
Puckree T, Cerny F, Bishop B. Abdominal motor unit activity during respiratory and nonrespiratory tasks. J. Appl. Physiol. 1998 May ;84(5):1707-1715.
Here is vancouver according to library style references:
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7.
So no dots between the journal name abreviations and no month behind the publication year.
The AMA citation style is not correct either.
Here it is according to Zotero
Puckree T, Cerny F, Bishop B. Abdominal motor unit activity during respiratory and nonrespiratory tasks. J. Appl. Physiol. 1998;84(5):1707-1715.
Here according to AMA style citation reference:
Smith J, Canton EM. Weight-based administration of dalteparin in obese patients. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60(7):683-687.
The cursive style doesnt show here, but the journal name is cursive in both versions. However again there should be NO dots between the journal name.
I also noticed the downloadable style for British medical journal and JAMA isnt correct either.
The British Medical Journal style according to Zotero has dots between the name abreviations of the journal, plus shows the publication month. But British Medical journal requires NO dots between the names and NO month.
I am confused, but most downloadable styles seem to have dots between the journal name abreviations where there shouldnt be any.
Any suggestion?
Could anyone fix a proper medical journal style, which is a Vancouver style used by most medical journals. for example
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7.
Not cursive, no dots, no month.
Thank you.
Here is what Vancouver looks like according to Zotero
Puckree T, Cerny F, Bishop B. Abdominal motor unit activity during respiratory and nonrespiratory tasks. J. Appl. Physiol. 1998 May ;84(5):1707-1715.
Here is vancouver according to library style references:
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7.
So no dots between the journal name abreviations and no month behind the publication year.
The AMA citation style is not correct either.
Here it is according to Zotero
Puckree T, Cerny F, Bishop B. Abdominal motor unit activity during respiratory and nonrespiratory tasks. J. Appl. Physiol. 1998;84(5):1707-1715.
Here according to AMA style citation reference:
Smith J, Canton EM. Weight-based administration of dalteparin in obese patients. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60(7):683-687.
The cursive style doesnt show here, but the journal name is cursive in both versions. However again there should be NO dots between the journal name.
I also noticed the downloadable style for British medical journal and JAMA isnt correct either.
The British Medical Journal style according to Zotero has dots between the name abreviations of the journal, plus shows the publication month. But British Medical journal requires NO dots between the names and NO month.
I am confused, but most downloadable styles seem to have dots between the journal name abreviations where there shouldnt be any.
Any suggestion?
Could anyone fix a proper medical journal style, which is a Vancouver style used by most medical journals. for example
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7.
Not cursive, no dots, no month.
Thank you.
on the issue you mention most, though: the no dots in Journal Abbreviations isn't currently possible - Zotero takes whatever is in the journal abbreviation field.
I'd recommend not changing this in Zotero, though, as the next version of the citation processor will be able to strip the periods away (but not add them).
So AMA is as correct as currently possible, Vancouver and BMJ shouldn't have month - I'd want to see a styleguide to confirm that - the date requirements are often very unspecific in styles, with month given as "optional" or "recommended".
The issue with month/date is quite complex and flexible as you say. The general rule I believe is that if the journal has a continuous page numbering system throughout the year, the month AND issue number is omitted. So no date and NO issue number in brackets.
If the journal has individual paging for it's issues, then the issue number is added in brackets.
But as far as I can tell the date/month information is left out in either case (vancouver and BMJ).
BMJ and Student BMJ uses italics for the journal name.
What a mess.
Since I will be removing a lot of dots, I might as well remove the month info.
thank you again.
I don't think the csl upgrade can deal with this particular rule, which is a total mess.
I'll recheck Vancouver and BMJ on month - I think Vancouver has a couple of glitches anyway (e.g. wrong spaces) so I'll try to do this all at once.
Thanks for the feedback!
In case I wasn't clear on this: i'd strongly recommend only removing the periods in your word document and not in the Zotero database, as Zotero will be able to do this automatically in the near future (and you may encounter a style requiring periods).