Another problem I have noticed surfaces with articles in edited books. The "In" before the name of the editors needs an colon "In: [name of editor]..."

I checked the style guides of Harvard 1 (http://www.zotero.org/styles/harvard1, which references http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm) and Chicago (http://www.zotero.org/styles/chicago-author-date, which references http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html), but both styles don't use a colon after the "In" before the name of the editors.

However the date-format and the comma before "and" are wrong. Is it a style question or something else?

Can you clarify the date-format problem? What style are you referring to, and what is the problem?

The comma before "and/und" can apparently be removed in the style by changing "delimiter-precedes-last="always"" to "delimiter-precedes-last="never"". You can do this yourself: download the style of interest (e.g. for ASA go to http://www.zotero.org/styles/asa, and use the File menu of Firefox to "Save page as..." to save the style). Then open the file with a text editor, make the change, save the file and drop the file onto a Firefox window. Firefox should then ask you whether you want to install that modified style. It isn't an ideal solution (I think there are some plans to better support localization of styles), but it may help you in the short term.

>> Can you clarify the date-format problem? What style are you referring to, and what >> is the problem?

Thanks a lot for the hint Rintze! The date-format problem is as stated in petzis first post. At the moment I have:

(Zugegriffen Mai 11, 2008)

which doesn´t make sense in german. It should be

(Zugegriffen: 11 Mai 2008)

so day/month/year. Probably thats changeable in the xml too, I will have a more in depth look where..

Thanks again for the help!

fon

"(Zugegriffen Mai 11, 2008) ... should be (Zugegriffen: 11 Mai 2008)"

In the Harvard 1 style there is a macro which describes how the date in the accessed section of the bibliography entry is formatted. The current layout is a result of the following code:

<macro name="access">
<group>
<text value="Available at:" suffix=" "/>
<text variable="URL"/>
<group prefix=" [" suffix="]">
<text term="accessed" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=" "/>
<date variable="accessed">
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="day" suffix=", "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</group>
</group>
</macro>

To get your desired layout, I just had to include a colon in the suffix of the term accessed, exchange the day and month date-parts and removed the comma from the day suffix. The changed part of the macro then becomes:

<text term="accessed" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=": "/>
<date variable="accessed">
<date-part name="day" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>

>> The comma before "and/und" can apparently be removed in the style by changing
>> "delimiter-precedes-last="always"" to "delimiter-precedes-last="never"". You can do >> this

I managed to do this for the bibliography but not for the citations i.e. (author, author, and author year), it still does the comma before the german und.

Would be grateful if anyone had some input for me. thanks!

fon

Thank you Rintze. I tried that out too but it did not work even after several refreshes and style changes. Your post got me to delete those citations and redo them, that way it worked! :)

thanks again for your support!
fon