I don't know who's who here, but let me tell you something Dan Stillman. I'm a Master degree student and I am not decided yet which reference software I will adopt, thus I am in the decision process to choose which one I'll finally consider. I have been led to think Mendeley might be interesting, but while experiencing difficulties with referencing and further discovering limits in comunity support, I am now thinking that it's a real down point for Mendeley...

If I ended up on Zotero's forum, it's because while trying to frenchify APA 6th Edition referencing style, I tried to contact Richard Karnesky, contributor on APA 6th Ed. style, and he personally suggested I would come on Zotero's forum for some help. So here I am. At first I didn't think it was a Mendeley-related problem, I tought I had a CSL problem. Helpfully, mronkko, Gracile and adamsmith came to support and try to solve this issue. It is while discussing that we ended up confirming it was a mendeley-issue.

To conclude this final post, let me just say that as a higher education student exploring tools for referencing, after this experience, I'm quite more likely to promote high quality community support from Zotero rather than Mendeley's. So thank you mronkko, Gracile and adamsmith for providing evidence that Zotero comunity is a major advantage over Mendeley.

I hope I made clear I'm very thankful here, and please do not consider me as a "Mendeleyer", because I'm not, I'm just exploring limits...and discovering the power of a comunity which you can count on!

Vincent

Thank you Dan Stillman for these words, and Happy New Year!

I would have a last and final question which I'm sure could help any other Zotero user who are working with CSL files to better understand CSL files achitecture.

Here is my PasteBin link: http://pastebin.com/QHEBmVcg

Here are lines 43 to 56

<if type="webpage">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text term="retrieved" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=" "/>
<group>
<date variable="accessed" suffix=" ">
<date-part name="day" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="month" text-case="lowercase" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
<text variable="year-suffix"/>
</group>
<text term="from"/>
<text variable="URL"/>
</group>
</if>


My question: What line should I add if I want line 48 to be translated within my script? What I mean is that I want to apply something like an IF command for "month" that would apply a modification for a french term. Something similar to the "Term" section that could change reference within the whole script

</term>
<term name="retrieved">repéré le</term>
<term name="from">à</term>
<term name="in">dans</term>
<term name="presented at">présenté à</term>
<term name="no date">sans date</term>
<term name="edition">édition</term>
</terms>


So, is there an IF or whatever command line function to add that would apply a french version for months? Even if I must add 12 command lines, one for each month, that would be OK.

So where and how do I apply such a command line inside my CSL script??

Thank you all Zotero CSL experts,

Vincent

I don't understand the question - could you provide an example of what you want to do?

If you just want to change the formatting for one month (e.g. abbreviate septiembre as spt. instead of sep. or so) you can also do that in the terms section of the style - see. e.g. the MLA style which re-defines all month abbreviations.

Because you're using Mendeley?

As adamsmith said, you can redefine month terms just like any other term:

<locale xml:lang="en">
<terms>
<term name="month-01">janvier</term>
...
</terms>
</locale>

for reason which I won't explain here

Right. Closing this thread.