change access date of a style in the repository

stoerenfrieda · January 1, 2014

hello, could so. plz tell me how to change sth. in the repository or change it for me there? i'm using "DIN 1505-2 (author-date, German)" as style. if i have a website entry the access date shows up like 2014-01-01 but it should be 01.01.2014 (dd.mm.yyyy) because thats the german format of a date normally. thankss alot
frieda

aurimas · January 1, 2014

Not sure why this was explicitly made into yyyy-mm-dd, but you can change it locally. Take a look at the first two steps here: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step#manually_editing_csl_styles so you know how to edit the style. Then look for <macro name="access"> In that block, change

<group>
      <text term="retrieved" suffix=" "/>
      <date variable="accessed">
        <date-part name="year" form="long" suffix="-"/>
        <date-part name="month" form="numeric-leading-zeros" suffix="-"/>
        <date-part name="day" form="numeric-leading-zeros"/>
      </date>
      &lt;!--<date variable="accessed" form="numeric" date-parts="year-month-day"/> // dd.mm.yyy -->
    </group>

to look like

<group>
      <text term="retrieved" suffix=" "/>
      <date variable="accessed" form="numeric" date-parts="year-month-day"/>
    </group>

(i.e. remove the first <date> block and remove  comment part)

Then follow step 3 (http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step#install_your_edited_style_with_zotero)

stoerenfrieda · January 2, 2014

thanks it works! :)

adamsmith · January 2, 2014

(for future reference - while the DIN 1505-2 style is interpreted differently at various German universities, it does prescribe dates to be printed in ISO format, so the current behavior is a correct implementation of the norm. Also, DIN 1505-2 is being replaced by DIN ISO 690 see e.g. http://infobib.de/blog/2013/12/03/neue-zitier-norm-din-iso-6902013-10/ )