Cambridge History Faculty Style

LambertLives
Hey guys, I've been using Zotero for the last few months and really like it. My problem is that my thesis, which is being written for Cambridge's History Faculty, need to use a style which is a slight tweak on the 'Historical Journal' style. Could somebody tell me how to code it?

A book needs to appear as follows:

M. Cowling, Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution: the passing of the second Reform Bill (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 41-5, 140-7, 151-62.

And so the only tweaks this requires to the HJ format is the deletion of the publisher and the removal of the comma after the book title. The Book title should also be italicised, but obviously I wasn't able to format that here.

Journal Articles need to be formatted as follows:

W.G. Hynes, ‘British mercantile attitudes towards imperial expansion’, Historical Journal, XIX, 4 (1976), 969-76.

Which again merely entails the removal of the 'pp.' from the page numbers in the HJ style.

Finally, volumes need to appear as:

John Morley, The life of William Ewart Gladstone (2 vols., London, 1988 edn.), I, 42, 121-34.

Which just requires the removal of the comma after the title and the removal of 'pp.', as above, from the HJ style.

I'm very new to this end of Zotero so if anyone could help me make these simple tweaks I'd be every so grateful.
  • zuphilip
    Some documentation which may be helpful: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step . Alternatively, you can try to convince the autoratives at your faculty to allow the well-established journal style as well.
  • LambertLives
    I'm sorry, but that tutorial is far too complicated for me! I literally would like someone to just point out how to make those minors changes as it would make the world of difference (even just the codes to copy paste would be great!). Otherwise I'll have to do the whole thing manually.
  • adamsmith
    sorry, we just don't have the capacity to provide step-by-step help for university or department specific styles. If you think about how many people write theses at different departments/Us, I hope you'll understand why.
  • LambertLives
    Sure, but these are tiny changes to the Historical Journal template which already exists. I just want someone to tell me how to remove commas after book titles and remove the 'pp.' prefix from page numbers in general. I don't need an entirely new style formatting for me, I have 99% of the right thing already.
  • aurimas
    edited September 10, 2014
    If you use the visual editor (first paragraph in the linked page), it's fairly self-explanatory. Find the style you want to edit. Change the type of reference you're interested in (top-right, Example citations -> Citation 1), which in your case would be Chapter. Then click on parts that you need to change (in the sample citation that is displayed). Save with a new id and file name.
  • adamsmith
    (you actually only need to change the name of the style in the visual editor. It takes care of ID and filename by itself)
  • LambertLives
    edited September 10, 2014
    Thanks, aurimas, that has helped to remove 'pp.' from the 'volume' and 'article' styles. Now I just need to know how to stop commas appearing at the end of book titles so that they appear like this:

    John Smith, Zotero is Confusing (London, 2000), p. 12

    Rather than like this:

    John Smith, Zotero is Confusing, (London, 2000), p. 12
  • aurimas
    edited September 10, 2014
    :-/ That one's actually not quite easy. Go to the Code Editor (top of page). Find <text macro="container"/>
    <text macro="volref"/>     around line 172 (could be slightly off based on your edits) and wrap them inside <group delimiter=" ">.... </group> tags.
  • aurimas
    Err, sorry, that was wrong. But it actually depends on where you want to get rid of comma. Is it after book title, before editor, or after title and editor, before publisher?
  • aurimas
    Also, there should already be no comma there in a chapter, only in book (@adamsmith, that doesn't seem right)
  • LambertLives
    Thanks for this but I'm not quite sure what you mean? Wrap inside?

    Can you give me an example of the completed code?
  • LambertLives
    I just want to get rid of the comma after a book title so it runs straight to an open bracket for the publisher information, as per my example.

    Thanks!
  • aurimas
    Your example isn't complete, since it's missing a book editor. I'll just assume that you don't want to have a comma before the parentheses (so the second thing I said above).

    Find <else-if type="bill book graphic legal_case legislation motion_picture report song" match="any"> (around line 150). Wrap everything _inside_ the else-if block in <group>...</group>.

    To wrap <a> inside <i>...</i> =
    <i>
    <a>
    </i>
  • LambertLives
    There isn't a book editor, just an author. I am trying to remove the comma from before the publisher information.

    And I'm afraid I really don't understand the code stuff, sorry for being so stupid. Could you just paste what it is I need to replace with the complete code?
  • zuphilip
    You need something like this (just do the according stuff in the visual editor):


    x+01: <else-if type="bill book graphic legal_case legislation motion_picture report song" match="any">
    x+02: <group delimiter=" ">
    x+03: <group delimiter=", ">
    x+04: <text macro="title"/>
    x+05: <text macro="editor"/>
    x+06: </group>
    x+07: <group delimiter=", ">
    x+08: <group prefix=" (" suffix=")" delimiter=", ">
    x+09: <text macro="volumes"/>
    x+10: <text macro="publisher"/>
    x+11: <text macro="container"/>
    x+12: <text macro="date"/>
    x+13: </group>
    x+14: </group>
    x+15: </group>
    x+16: ...


    You have to add (Plus-button) especially a new "group"-node and ajdust the delimiter at position x+02, then move the other two nodes x+03 and x+07 inside that new created one.

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