Is there a style like this?

Shaikailash
Hi all, I'm going to finish my master's thesis, and my Faculty ask for a style like this:

Pierson P. (1996), The Path to European Integration. A Historical Institutionalis Analysis, in «Comparative Political Studies», n. 2, pp.123-63.

They say that it's Harvard author-date style, but it doesn't look like that. I've looked ad all the default zotero styles, and other styles online, and no one use the italic for the article's title! Nor the « » for the journal title.
The most common style is to use Italic for the title of the journal.

Do you know if there is a style like the one my Faculty wants?
Thank you very much
  • adamsmith
    I have never seen anything like this and it goes against common conventions, according to which independently published titles are put in italics (i.e. books and journals) and sections in those are in quotation marks. This is very much true for political science and is one of the few things style guides from continental Europe, Britain, and the US agree on (the quotation marks used in that citation are French, btw.).

    You can try editing yourself:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
    I don't think you'll find someone to code this style for you - requiring something like this for a Masters thesis is just too unreasonable (which isn't your fault, of course), and I'd rather spend my time on things that are useful for more than one person...
  • Shaikailash
    Thank you. This confirms that the style is a kind of non-sense, and I don't think it's acceptable to follow it only because someone wrote it; moreover, they say it's the Harvard style, but I haven't seen anything like that, as you said.
    I'll try to ask my professor if I can use a more accepted format, like the Harvard author-date in Zotero.
  • ajlyon
    This looks vaguely like the GOST-like styles that are used in Russia and the former Soviet Union, at least at first glance.
  • Shaikailash
    I searched for this GOST style but it doesn't have any italic, and it uses the // so it's something quite different.
    Thank you however!
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