Minor Edits to Elsevier-Havard (with titles)

dunkryan · July 28, 2013

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to make a few small edits to get exactly the citations I want, but I'm having trouble. Could someone help me with these?

1. I want the "et al." in citations in italics

2. I want the author names in citations in small caps (but not et al., obviously).

3. I want multiple entries in a citation to be ordered chronologically.

I see some answers similar to my questions here on the forum, but I can't get any of them to work. I would like to add these edits to Elsevier-Harvard (with titles) as it is closest otherwise to what I want. Could someone make these edits for me or explain very carefully how to do them?

Edit- Additionally, I was wondering if it possible for Zotero to auto-suppress authors when they are listed right before the citation (Here I am using Word 2003). I think this is outside of its limits, but I figured I'd check.

adamsmith · July 28, 2013

THis all refers to the in-text citations I take it.
For 1 and 2, find this

<macro name="author-short">
<names variable="author">
<name form="short" and="text" delimiter=", " initialize-with=". "/>
<substitute>

and change to
<macro name="author-short">
<names variable="author">
<name form="short" and="text" delimiter=", " initialize-with=". ">
<name-part name="family" font-variant="small-caps"/>
</name>
<et-al font-style="italic"/>
<substitute>

For 3. see here:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/31015/style-error-icarus/#Item_6

And no, automatic suppress author isn't possible, you'll have to do it in the plugin.

dunkryan · July 28, 2013

Thanks for the help! I am getting it to look right in the editing window, but when I try to save and install (using Zotero standalone) I keep getting "is not a valid style file" error.

dstillman · July 28, 2013

Meaning that you're copying the code to a text editor and saving it? If so, you have to save it as a plain-text file. Many editors will default to other formats (e.g., RTF).

dstillman · July 28, 2013

Or you might have just made a mistake in the code. See https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Validation

adamsmith · July 28, 2013

(this is all explained here: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step )

dunkryan · July 28, 2013

I tried editing it right in Zotero and then saving it using the editing window. Apparently this was my problem. Opening the file in notepad, it loses the correct format (it seems).

I pasted the code right into notepad, made the changes, resaved it, and it worked!

Thanks!