Harvard - Manchester Business School - in-text citation

sunflowernina · June 16, 2012

Hi, I am completely new to csl langauge, so I need help to change the following in-text citation.
Currently in-text citation shows like that
(Fletcher 2004, p.1)

but I would like to have a semicolon between author and year, replace the semicolon with colon between year and page. And then I would like to remove the p. - so it should look like that:

(Fletcher, 2004: 1)

Would be great if someone could help. Thank you

adamsmith · June 16, 2012

Change

<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
      <group delimiter=", ">
        <group delimiter=" ">
          <text macro="author-short"/>
          <text macro="year-date"/>
        </group>
        <group>
          <label variable="locator" form="short"/>
          <text variable="locator"/>
        </group>
      </group>
    </layout>

to

<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
      <group delimiter=": ">
        <group delimiter=" ">
          <text macro="author-short"/>
          <text macro="year-date"/>
        </group>
          <text variable="locator"/>
      </group>
    </layout>

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step for general instructions

sunflowernina · June 17, 2012

Thanks a lot for this super-fast answer! I did make a correction though as I was still missing the semicolon after the author.

For now, it seems to work like that (hopefully I have not done a mistake) and the citation looks like this:
(Fletcher, 2004: 1)

sunflowernina · June 17, 2012


<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
      <group delimiter=": ">
        <group delimiter=", ">
          <text macro="author-short"/>
          <text macro="year-date"/>
        </group>
          <text variable="locator"/>
      </group>
    </layout>

Gracile · June 17, 2012

(As for html, you can put your code between <code></code> tags)

sunflowernina · June 17, 2012

Got it - see above! Cool- thank you.

sunflowernina · August 12, 2012

Hello,
it is the beginner again. This time, I would like to remove the punctuation after "et al." both in the citation and the bibliography.
Could someone help again, please?

sunflowernina · August 27, 2012

Hello, hello. could someone help with this? Two days until submission...and I also wonder how I can get rid of the first initial in some citations. For example (S.Latham and L.Latham, 2000). I would like to have it like this (Latham and Latham, 2000).
THANKS

adamsmith · August 27, 2012

For the et al - you mean getting rid of the period in et al. - ie. have it be et al instead of et al. ?
add this

 <locale xml:lang="en">
    <terms>
      <term name="et-al">et al</term>
    </terms>
  </locale>

right after the info section of the style, i.e. after
</info>

For the other issue:
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation

sunflowernina · August 28, 2012

Great, thank you. Will try it!

sunflowernina · August 28, 2012

It worked - now the last question. Is there a way to put et al in italics as well? I have seen some explanation on the web but could not change it myself.

adamsmith · August 28, 2012

Find this

<macro name="author-short">
  <names variable="author">
    <name form="short" and="text" delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="never" initialize-with=". "/>
    <substitute>
      <names variable="editor"/>
      <names variable="translator"/>
      <text macro="anon"/>
    </substitute>
  </names>
</macro>

change to this:

<macro name="author-short">
  <names variable="author">
    <name form="short" and="text" delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="never" initialize-with=". "/>
    <et-al font-style="italic"/>
    <substitute>
      <names variable="editor"/>
      <names variable="translator"/>
      <text macro="anon"/>
    </substitute>
  </names>
</macro>

i.e. add in the et-al font-style="italic" line.
this is for in text citations, if you also want it in italics in the bibliography, do the same in the "author" macro.

sunflowernina · August 28, 2012

THANKS SO MUCH - IT WORKS and I AM REALLY HAPPY NOW.