Request for a specific bibliography style; similar to IEEE but edited

Andromalis
Hello!

I am currently writing an engineering thesis and came to a conclusion that I may be unable to understand how to properly edit the IEEE style, so I decided to ask for help on these forums. After a few hours of attempts in editing, I finally gave up.

I need a style similar to IEEE (IEEE link: https://editor.citationstyles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http://www.zotero.org/styles/ieee).

IEEE example:

[1] I. Mares, “Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers?,” in Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage, P. A. Hall and D. Soskice, Eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 184–213.

I need the surname of the author(s) to be in front of the first letter of their names. I also need the date of publication to be directly after any authors. Also my university requires me to sort the publications alphabetically, by author's surname.

My example below:

[1] Mares I., 2001, “Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers?,” in Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage, P. A. Hall and D. Soskice, Eds. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 184–213.

Thank you for any and all help in advance.
  • Andromalis
    Bumping this one. I still need help.
  • damnation
    What university? Do you have a link to the guidelines?
  • Andromalis
    edited April 18, 2022
    Warsaw University of Technology. The guidelines are in Polish, and I believe the document with the guidelines was made public, so here's the link:

    https://www.pw.plock.pl/Media/Files/Studenci/Dziekanat/Zasady-dyplomowania/Wymagania-i-zalecenia-edytorskie-dotyczace-pracy-dyplomowej

    (direct link to PDF: https://www.pw.plock.pl/content/download/10976/63891/file/Wymagania i zalecenia edytorskie dotyczące pracy dyplomowej.pdf)

    I think the guidelines are properly depicted in my example provided in the original post; the only differences between IEEE and a desired format would be to swap author surname with name, provide a publication date right after authors, and that the order of sources should be alphabetical (not in order of appearance in text).
  • Andromalis
    Bumping this one. The paper is due in a week. I may have to end up manually editing the bibliography, but it won't be too much of a problem - just some quick excel work and rearranging, as there's roughly 30 to 40 citations at most. Thanks in advance!
  • damnation
    edited April 23, 2022
    Not to worry.
    Can you point out where the references in-text and for bib are explained. I don't speak/read polish.
    I do however see ISO 690 mentioned. We have those styles on the repository. Did you check those?
  • Andromalis
    Arrangement order of bibliography (alphabetical) is mentioned at "Zalecenia dotyczą:" point 8, first page.

    I have not yet checked any ISO 690 styles. I will browse soon and add a response if this solved my problem.
  • Andromalis
    I checked the available author-date styles, and sadly none of them fit my required example seen in the first post.
  • damnation
    edited April 25, 2022
    IEEE and your examples above are a numeric style, and not an author-date style as you said in your last answer. Maybe you just got the name wrong or looked for the wrong style.
  • Andromalis
    The style has to be numeric, but the bibliography order has to be sorted alphabetically by author, not by order of appearance. So references in text are required to be shown as follows (example): [1].
  • damnation
    It just mentions "8. układu zestawienia bibliograficznego – alfabetyczny według nazwisk,", but does not SHOW how citations are meant to look. Without we can not really guide you or make a citation style.

    It mentions on page 10:
    "A bibliography should be provided at the end of the thesis. It is recommended that placing the bibliographic list in alphabetical order in accordance with the guidelines PN-ISO 690: 2012."

    You could try this style: http://www.zotero.org/styles/iso690-numeric-brackets-cs
  • Andromalis
    This looks and works very well, thank you. Now I just need to figure out how to "change" the language from Czech to Polish and I'm good to go :)
  • damnation
    First line, change default-locale="cs-CZ" to pl-PL.

    General instructions: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
  • Andromalis
    I've managed to change the language as well as make some minor modifications in the visual editor. However, the style still orders citations in order of appearance as opposed to alphabetical. How can I change the ordering of citations to order them alphabetically (by first author's surname) instead of order of appearance?
  • Andromalis
    edited April 25, 2022
    Okay, I managed to crack the visual editor once more. To solve my problem of incorrect bibliography sorting I changed the sorting method in the visual editor from "order of appearance" to "author" by changing it under "Bibliography -> Sort -> Sort by: author" selection.

    Thank you for any and all help and I can probably call this case closed. I'll probably make a new thread or dive in myself if I need any other minor changes done.
  • damnation
    Glad you figured it out. If there's any amendments needed, you can always ask here. Probably just takes us a minute to hint at the right line of code, if you're struggling. ;)
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