Style Request: Journal of The Electrochemical Society

zfishman
Hi Zotero community,

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could assist me in creating a style for the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (ECS).

I think it is similar to "Elsevier (without titles)" style but there are some changes to be made. The journal's instructions are at the following links:
http://www.electrochem.org/dl/support/jrnls_auth_info.htm
http://www.electrochem.org/dl/support/assets/jes_inst.pdf

I think only journals, books, and edited volumes are needed.

Also, for the in-line citations, the numbers appear as footnote style, with superscript numbers, rather than brackets numbers.

I have not seen any independent styles for a baseline.

Many thanks for any help that you can provide.
Cheers
Zach
  • adamsmith
    If you want the style you'll have to follow the guidelines here:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/requesting_styles
    esp. point 2)
  • zfishman
    Hi adamsmith,

    Thanks for the quick reply.

    I thought I covered the pt 2) with the similarity to "Elsevier (without titles)" style and the link to the journal style description:
    http://www.electrochem.org/dl/support/assets/jes_inst.pdf

    Should I expand more on the differences part?

    Thanks for any help you can provide.
  • adamsmith
    Differences from similar style: The next step is to itemize the precise differences that need to be implemented to make that existing style into the style you need.
    take the itemize literally. You can search for some of the other style requests on the forum for guidance.
  • zfishman
    I took another look through the styles list. The ECS style for journals is most similar to the "Science journal" style.

    The changes:
    citations:
    (#) --> superscript #

    bibliography:
    For journals, the changes:
    1. for two authors: "and" separator. For >2, "Name, Name, and Name". The first initial last name style is still good here.
    2. Adding a "," after the abbreviated journal title
    3. Only the first page number instead of the page range

    For books:
    1. Same name style as the journal section - to add the "and"s
    2. To add a comma following the book title, which is still italicized
    3. After the title, the page number in the form "p. #,"
    4. After the page number, the rest is changed to the form "Publisher, Location (Year)."

    For Author(s) Referenced in an Edited Volume:
    The example from the PDF: E. P. Able and A. T. Baker, in Electrosynthesis, 2nd ed., J. Carter, Editor, p. 40, Wiley Interscience, New York (1991).

    I think the changes to be made to the "Science Journal" style are:
    1. Same name style as the journal section - to add the "and"s
    2. After the "in title," to add the edition number in the form "2nd ed."
    3. Change "Eds." to "Editor(s)"
    4. The Publisher, Location (Year) is then the same as the Books reference type.

    Please let me know if there is anything else I need to provide for assistance. Many thanks!
  • adamsmith
    go here
    http://gist.github.com/414604
    download the style by right-clicking on the "Raw" link on the top right and "Save Link as..."
    Drag the downloaded journal-of-the-electrochemical-society.csl to any open Firefox window to install.

    Note:
    Zotero cannot as of yet do 1st pages only - so journals get the entire page range.
    I don't understand what the pages for books and articles in edited volumes are - what I have done is to include the number of pages for books and the page range for articles.
    It is not possible to include the page the material is cited (nor will it likely be in the future).
  • zfishman
    thank you and your team for the great work!

    a small debug: for long lists of author names, the bibliography style changes to "First Author et al." instead of "Author, Author, ... Author and Author". I noticed a line of code:
    <option name="et-al-min" value="6"/>
    If there is not an easy way to implement this change, should I just change value = 1000 so it would never be a problem?
  • adamsmith
    yes, exactly - just open if with a text editor.
  • gshwang
    I appreciate what you have done. However, it looks this style does not properly work with Mendeley, ending up with an error message. Could you take a look at what is happening here? Mendeley uses 1.0.
  • DWL-SDCA
    Why would anyone pay to use an inferior -- not fully standards compliant -- product that has inadequate technical support? Why would a user of that product expect Zotero volunteers to help with getting a style that works in Zotero to also work in the other product? When a style is tested and found valid it should work. At this point it seems like there are two choices: 1) question the support people at the commercial product and wait hoping for a satisfactory answer; or 2) move your library to Zotero, a program that already does what you want and has quick-response 24/7 support.

    Am I being too harsh?
  • adamsmith
    (actually, though, that style should be updated to 1.0 and put up on the repo, so while "why would you want to use Mendeley?" is certainly a legitimate question, so is making this style available in CSL 1.0).
  • RintzeRintze
    I updated the style to CSL 1.0 and added it to the style repository: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/commit/644294e662b72103d840caa7f95898d324e80552
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