Submitting Style: zotero-SF
I want to submit three styles especially adapted for german-speaking Zotero users in the human and social sciences.
They are derivations from Till A. Heilmann's styles: http://www.zotero.org/styles/tah-gkw and http://www.zotero.org/styles/tah-soz. I hope I made this clear enough by using this link:
<link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/original-style" rel="template"/>
The links to my styles on github are:
https://gist.github.com/1825501
https://gist.github.com/1825502
https://gist.github.com/1825507
Thanks, and I hope its useful!
They are derivations from Till A. Heilmann's styles: http://www.zotero.org/styles/tah-gkw and http://www.zotero.org/styles/tah-soz. I hope I made this clear enough by using this link:
<link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/original-style" rel="template"/>
The links to my styles on github are:
https://gist.github.com/1825501
https://gist.github.com/1825502
https://gist.github.com/1825507
Thanks, and I hope its useful!
What university are these styles used at? Is there really nothing online describing these styles?
The problem, why I had to create this style is the following:
Many german students and scientists (especially in human and social sciences) want to use Zotero, but they don't find a style, which is completely translated and is just working. The style of Mr. Hellmann is the only alternative for german students, but the style wasn't updated for a long while, so it didn't work properly and made mistakes.
In Germany, every university, every faculty, sometimes even every prof. has his own preferred citation style for homework's and thesis. But most of the times, as a student, they accept if you use any style, but use it constantly in your paper. Just all the other styles I tried, where not translated properly or didn't fit to common german citation rules. So I adapted the style of TIll Hellmann to a more or less "works in every situation for a german student"-style. :)
I think it would be great to have at least another well working up-to-date style especially for the growing german market of Zotero. And furthermore, I'm ready to update the style, if there are mistakes or problems. I want to create a documentation for this style on my website as well. Maybe you can tell me, which informations are important, or maybe give me a link to an existing documentation.
Would this make it easier to upload it to the repository?
If the style is an across the board improvement over Till's style, we should substitute it. Otherwise, if we want more variety in German styles, I think the way to go would be to do what the Institut für Praxisforschung style does - the author found a useful, well documented style guide and went with that, even though the Institut is a pretty obscure institution. I'd be happy to put up (though not code) styles for individual faculties or even individual Lehrstühle as long as they have documented rules.
I'm ready to document the style as good as possible.
I'd even try to ask one of my faculty members, if they'd accept this style as an official style for them, but this last option I can't promise that it works out, because as adamsmith told: Citationwise its a mess in Germany.
Still some variety would be good for users as well as Zotero's standing in Germany, as long there are not more than 50 diff. styles with no obvious difference.
(edit: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/18588/not-a-valid-csl-file/?Focus=96617#Comment_96617 )
Under http://validator.nu, with the raw files from github, I get:
"The document validates according to the specified schema(s) and to additional constraints checked by the validator."
Second check with newly installed styles, downloaded from githib: The test-pane in Firefox shows me, that the styles work as expected.
Third check: I inserted citations in Word. Just works.
I used: Mac OS 10.7, Firefox 10.0.1, Zotero 3.01, and Word 14.1.14
What did you (simifilm) use?
@simifilm: Could you try it again with the corrected styles on github?
Is there a good a example for a well done documentation?
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/03/
but don't feel the need to go into a lot of detail as they do - if we have a rule and an example for each relevant item type that should be enough. We don't want you spend hours on a styleguide.
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (JOMS) zotero style
git://gist.github.com/2402516.git
JOMS style
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Style-Requirements
http://www.saschafoerster.de/2012/05/zoterosf-zitierstil-fur-die-geisteswissenschaften-dokumentation/
Finally, could the style become part of the repository?
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/commit/d00369002c3f611cc1d8f16776a398b2e85a3661