Ecology Letters Style Error

leifr7
Hi,
I think I found an error in the style sheet for the journal Ecology Letters. When citing a PhD dissertation in an MS Word document, the reference is rendered in the bibliography without information from the fields for University and location. Recently published papers in this journal include that information so I think it is part of the style. I fixed this manually in my document, but wanted to point it out for others.
Leif
  • aurimas
    Could you point to a recently published paper that cites a PhD dissertation?
  • adamsmith
    (can be a gated copy - we have access to the journal).
  • leifr7
    Hi,
    Here are two examples. In the first, see the reference to PhD by Hilbun 2009;in the second, to Bollwinkel 1969.
    Thanks!
    Leif

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01768.x/full

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01609.x/full
  • aurimas
    Hilbun, N. (2009). Land use and reef ecology in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama. PhD Dissertation (online only), UMI ProQuest, Ann Arbor. Publication no. 3388768
    Bollwinkel, C.W. (1969). A revision of the South American species of Asclepias L. Thesis (PhD). Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA
  • adamsmith
    yeah, so that's all over the place. I'll do

    Author (Year). Title. Thesis Type, Institution, Place.
  • aurimas
    Coffey, E.E. (2012). Determination of baseline ecological conditions in the humid highlands of Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, Ecuador. PhD Dissertation. Jesus College, University of Oxford, Oxford.
    from http://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12203
  • leifr7
    That works for me. There is no guidance on this on the 'for authors' page.
  • aurimas
    Seems like a period after thesis type.
  • adamsmith
    So that's two to one for having a period not a comma between Type & Institution. Preferences?
  • leifr7
    I don't have a preference, just want to format according to what the journal requires...
  • adamsmith
    The style is now fixed. The updated version will appear on the repository within 30mins (check the timestamp). Update your copy of the style by clicking "Update Now" in the General tab of the Zotero preferences.

    Styles also update automatically within 24hs for Zotero 4.0+
    In an existing document, you may have to switch to a different style and back for the changes to take effect once the style is updated.
    Any further problems please let us know & thanks for reporting
  • leifr7
    Thanks so much!
  • leifr7
    Sorry to bug you again, but the style is now including two instances of the information in the 'Type' field, in the example below, "Ph.D.":

    Otterstatter, M.C. (2007). Dynamics of an intestinal pathogen within and between bumble bee hosts (Ph.D.). Ph.D. University of Toronto, Canada.
  • adamsmith
    sorry about that. fixed. Same instructions as above.
  • leifr7
    Great, thanks again.
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