Incorrect Citation Style: Annals of the Association of American Geographers

michalis
According to the Annals style guide, any citation of more than 3 authors should include parenthetically the first author's last name, followed by et al. and year. The Zotero I am using (v 3) puts 4 authors in my parenthetical citation.

Style guide is at http://www.aag.org/galleries/default-file/611_ANNALS_STYLE_SHEET.pdf
  • adamsmith
    thanks - should be fixed (check the date behind the style to see when it's updated).
  • michalis
    Wow quick reply and great resolution. Thank you.
  • sullicol
    Agreed, big thanks! For any newbies like me, this might not have been necessary but to get the update I did: Gear icon --> Preferences --> Cite --> Styles --> Get additional styles..., then clicked on 'Geography', and saw that the AAG style had been updated in early April, clicked to install it, and it asked me if I wanted to overwrite my existing style, said yes. I restarted Firefox, and then in Word clicked the refresh Zotero icon. Boom. All set.
  • JuanDeclet-Barreto
    I have the latest update for the Annals of the AAG style (9/28/12), but it is still including three first authors' names in the parenthetical citation.
  • adamsmith
    1. Sources with up to three authors should be pare
    nthetically cited every time using all author names;
    sources with more than three authors should be parent
    hetically cited every time using the first author name
    and “et al.”
    three authors are correct. four would be wrong.
  • JuanDeclet-Barreto
    Thanks; I overlooked that. Now, how do I go about changing the lack of indentation for multi-line bibliographical references?
  • adamsmith
    should those be indented? In the style guide they are not.
  • JuanDeclet-Barreto
    Well, the style guides for both the Annals and the Professional Geographer don't show indentations, but recent articles published there have indentations.
  • adamsmith
    It's easy enough to do either in the style - I'd assume the journal doesn't care as they'll do their own formatting anyway - you could ask the editors what they prefer and I'm happy to adjust the style if needed.
  • JuanDeclet-Barreto
    I'd prefer to have the option to change indentations regardless of the editors' preferences - it increases readability during the preparation of the manuscript. If it's a straightforward change to the CSL file, would you please tell how to do it?
  • adamsmith
    two options:
    1. use the visual editor, http://steveridout.com/csl/visualEditor/ load the AAAG style, then click on "Bibliography" on the left and set "hanging-indent" (bottom of the main panel) to true.

    2. Don't use the editor and edit the style directly. General directions are here
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
    specifically, add
    hanging-indent="true" to the line starting with <bibliography
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