Custom citation format
In my beautiful French-speaking province of Québec, in Canada, bibliographies and citation formats can be an issue. Depending on the professor, the format required will be different in every class: my department doesn't use the same as the library which uses a different one from the research group where I work. And none of them are exactly like the ones that are available on Zotero, even if those are the main ones.
Would it be possible to make an option to customize the citation format, so I can make it exactly like I need it. That way I wouldn't have to correct every single entry for italics or a comma and get completely alienated in the process of doing so.
Would it be possible to make an option to customize the citation format, so I can make it exactly like I need it. That way I wouldn't have to correct every single entry for italics or a comma and get completely alienated in the process of doing so.
sorry, I'm not good in this kind of things... I've tried to create my citation format, but I failed. Could someone, please, provide some example of a properly created, functional CSL file on which I would be able to learn ( CSL files for all the styles, which are already included in Zotero would be perfect)?
Thank you in advance and sorry again for my incompetence.
Greetings
Alexandr
I've taken a look at those examples and I believe I'll be able to adapt them to my needs.
Greetings
Alexandr
All of the CSL styles I am aware are at the link I reference above. There are a few author-date styles there, including Harvard, APA, and a couple/few others IIRC.
https://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/extension/branches/1.0/scrapers.sql
But the URLs that it gives for the canonical locations are all 404s.
This reminds me of the need to sort out details of infrastructure sooner rather than later. Putting the CSL files as strings in the SQL schema ain't very scalable. Really we need a scalable, distributed, and URI-based style system here. I've based CSL on that idea with borrowing aspects of Atom's metadata model (including the URI-based id element), but we need to take the next step to make it happen.