Council of Science Editors (CSE) style

Joern Kiselev
Hi,
I've installed the Council of Science Editors (CSE) style for submitting a manuscript. The instructions for authors stated that references in the text are given in square brackets: []
However, in my manuscript, all references are without any brackets andleveled up (don't know the exact term for it in english). Can anybody help me or correct this style?
  • adamsmith
    I'm pretty sure that's correct with superscript - where do you get the info about square brackets from?
    This says CSE should be superscripted:
    http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch11_s1-0002.html
    and I just had someone quote in a different thread from the actual _Scientific Style and Format_ manual that they require superscript.

    If you do need brackets, this isn't terribly hard to do:
    Read this
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
    then, in the style, change
    <layout delimiter="," vertical-align="sup">
    <text variable="citation-number"/>
    <group prefix="(" suffix=")">
    <label variable="locator" form="short" strip-periods="true"/>
    <text variable="locator"/>
    </group>
    </layout>

    to

    <layout delimiter="," prefix="[" suffix="]">
    <text variable="citation-number"/>
    <group prefix="(" suffix=")">
    <label variable="locator" form="short" strip-periods="true"/>
    <text variable="locator"/>
    </group>
    </layout>
  • Joern Kiselev
    I downloaded the instructions for authors from the journal "Disability and Rehabilitation". There it is stated that a) I should use the CSE style and give an example for citing where square brackets are used. Strange... Maybe I should contact the chief editor...

    Thank you very much anyway! :-)
  • adamsmith
    edited March 9, 2012
    OK, we can put that up as the style for the journal, but that will take some time - journals will frequently diverge somewhat from generic styleguides they follow.

    Edit: do you have a link to the author instructions for the journal?
  • Joern Kiselev
    Someone should tell them the purpose of styleguides...
    I will try to change it myself, but I'm not en expert with this stuff.
  • adamsmith
    There is now a Disability and Rehabilitation style, slight adaptation of CSE.
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