Modifying Nature citation style

vince683
Hey,

the nature citation style comes closest to my university standards for my doctoral disseration.

I was able to change one thing by myself *yay* - unfortunatelly, I need some help with two other parts for which I havent found any solutions in the forum so far :/

As an example:
Groch, S, Wilhelm, I, Diekelmann, S & Born, J. The role of REM sleep in the processing of emotional memories: evidence from behavior and event-related potentials. Neurobiol Learn Mem 99, 1–9 (2013).
This is the status quo. (a) I wish, that the last two of multiple names (or if there are just two names...) are seperated with "and" (well... und) instead of "&". (b) Furthermore I wish that the volume is not displayed in "bold", just simple plain text. (c) Is it possible to seperate the Names from the paper title with an ":" instead of "."?

http://pastebin.com/huLTumjX - the code, I changed so far.

Oh, maybe I am just overwhelmed with codes and for me the new surface of Zotero - where am I able to save the changes to a citation style?

Thanks in advance for any support and suggestions!
  • vince683
    edited October 9, 2013
    Well, my first post was maybe too soon. I solved

    (b): < group font-weight=""> [just removed the "bold"] and

    (c): < text macro="author" suffix=":"/> [changed "." to ":"]



    And for (a) I - at least - found the responsible line

    < name sort-separator=" " delimiter=", " and="symbol" initialize-with="" delimiter-precedes-last="never" name-as-sort-order="all"/>

    http://pastebin.com/LMeF6tPQ
    Groch S, Wilhelm I, Diekelmann S & Born J: The role of REM sleep in the processing of emotional memories: evidence from behavior and event-related potentials. Neurobiol Learn Mem 99, 1–9 (2013).
  • adamsmith
    for a) you do have the right line - change and="symbol" to and="text"
  • vince683
    thank you for your tip, adamsmith!
  • vince683
    Hey again,

    I stumbled over some other issues, maybe I can jump in right here...
    While adding a citation my text-format was (temporarily) screwed (line spacing, other font etc.). I found a solution in: http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/word_default_font // https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/23997/lineheight-paragraphspacing-changeable/

    (d) Unfortunatelly, while adding my bibliography at the end of my document, the format I defined by default (1.5 line spacing, font, indents) is not processed by the zotero plugin for libreoffice. I guess, it is more a question of using libreoffice properly, than an issue of the plugin.

    (e) Additionally I would like to change the citation itself from superscript number "1" to author and year of publication like "(Groch S et al. 2013)". I found a similar citation style in the "cell" *.csl.
    Unfortunatelly the cell CSL puts the publication year after the authors, instead of putting it to the end of the citation in the biblography.
    I am not sure which is easier to change with by very, very basic and rudimentary understanding of xml/html coding.


    Thanks again in advance!
  • adamsmith
    edited October 10, 2013
    e) You can just copy the entire citation section (from <citation... to </citation> over from the Cell style (replacing the current one). You will also have to copy over the two macros used - author-short and issued. Just place them right above the citation section.
  • vince683
    edited September 9, 2014
    I am hi-jacking that threat again :d

    http://pastebin.com/G5NCN4Q9

    the bibliograph has a alphabetic order and a numbering.

    Unfortunatelly the formatting is not jet perfect. As for now it looks like:
    65. Kreitzer AC and Malenka RC: Striatal plasticity and basal ganglia circuit function. Neuron 60, 543–554 (2008).
    66. Lewis PA and Durrant SJ: Overlapping memory replay during sleep builds cognitive schemata. Trends Cogn. Sci. 15, 343–351 (2011).
    I would prefer a formatting, where the 2nd/3rd and other lines would not be directly under the numbering.

    Thanks for any advice in advance!
  • adamsmith
    second-field-align="flush" --which is included in the style--should do that. How are you testing the style?
  • vince683
    Thank you again, adamsmith for your feedback.

    Via the complementary csl editor from zotero was I testing the style. Once again it seems to be an issue of using libreoffice properly.
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