finding appropriate citation styles in the repository
Is there a way to search for a citation style in the Zotero repository based on its characteristics rather than the style name? Often, journals do not list an existing style to be used in submissions, but detail their own style, which then happens to be very similar to the common existing styles in the Zotero repository. I find it is easier to start with a similar style already in the repository and modify it slightly than start creating a new style from scratch. A function allowing the user to find the "close enough" style (or even the exact match)easily would make this process quicker. For example, among the author-date styles, you could define such basic things as whether you are looking for a style that uses a comma or a hyphen between subsequent references within text, or whether or not there should be a comma between the author name and date, etc etc. Thanks for suggestions.
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