How to make a citation template

amelia.topham
Hello,

I am extremely new to Zotero and probably need some quite basic help, I have read so many forums and instructions and I still can't see exactly what I need to do.

We use the Zotero word plug-in for citations and bibliographies and often have to go and edit the style afterwards to our own style, so I am looking to create my own style or edit 'Journal of field ornithology' style. I don't even know where to start.

This is how our templates should be -

Journal: Camphuysen, C. J., Schouten, S. & Gronert, A. (2010) Mystery spill of Polyisobutylene (C4H8)n off the Dutch coast affecting seabirds in March 2010. Seabird 23: 143-145.

Published doc/report/book: Camphuysen, C. J., Schouten, S. & Gronert, A. (2012) The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise. Earthscan, London, UK.

Unpublished doc/report: ADB (2009) Safeguard Policy Statement. Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines.

Online resource: RSPB (2013) Wildlife charities call for ban on discharge of sticky seabird killer. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) news online.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/344559-wildlife-charities-call-for-ban-on-discharge-of-sticky-seabird-killer

I have looked at the CSL style editor - http://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor/

I understand that I should amend some of these fields such as delimiter, prefix and suffix but once I have done all of this and got it to how I need it how do I actually save it on to my library, and word so I can use it? I also don't understand how I can differentiate between a journal and a book etc, should I make a couple of different styles?

Any help would be hugely appreciated, and apologies as some of this is probably quite basic...

Thanks

Amelia
  • DWL-SDCA
    Please see:
    https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles

    Is the style you need required by a journal? If so which one?

    What about the in-text appearance? Is this an author(date) or a numbered style?
  • adamsmith
    (just to be clear--I won't be able to fill requests for non-journal style, so if this is for a custom style, there's no need to go through those steps).

    For the visual editor: You should set an appropriate title under "Info". Then you can save the style under style-->save at the top left and following the instructions on the screen for Zotero.

    For book/journal distincutions, those are almost certain already included in the style you're using. You'll see something like
    choose
    if type = book

    in the item tree on the left. See if you can work with that.
  • amelia.topham
    Hi Adam,

    Thanks for your reply, I'd only just seen this and didn't know I'd got a response.

    This is what I'm trying to achieve when we cite from Zotero, depending on what we are citing -

    Journal: Camphuysen, C. J., Schouten, S. & Gronert, A. (2010) Mystery spill of Polyisobutylene (C4H8)n off the Dutch coast affecting seabirds in March 2010. Seabird 23: 143-145.

    Published doc/report/book: Camphuysen, C. J., Schouten, S. & Gronert, A. (2012) The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise. Earthscan, London, UK.

    Published book/report chapter: Starkey, M. & Topham, A. (2012) How to cost nature. pp. 21-41 in: Camphuysen, C. J., Schouten, S. & Gronert, A. (Eds.) The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise. Earthscan, London, UK.

    Published edited report/book: Camphuysen, C. J., Schouten, S. & Gronert, A. (Eds.) (2012) The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise. Earthscan, London, UK.

    Unpublished doc/report: ADB (2009) Safeguard Policy Statement. Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines.

    Online resource: RSPB (2013) Wildlife charities call for ban on discharge of sticky seabird killer. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) news online. http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/344559-wildlife-charities-call-for-ban-on-discharge-of-sticky-seabird-killer

    I have edited a style based on 'Journal of Field Ornithology' so far.

    What I'm unsure about is do I need to make a new CSL style for each of the styles I require? i.e. one for unpublished docs, one for edited books, one for journals? Or can I do that all in one style? I also can't find anywhere how I can get (Eds.) after names when it is an edited report.

    Many Thanks

    Amelia
  • amelia.topham
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>



    TBC Journal Style
    http://www.zotero.org/styles/journal-of-field-ornithology



    Sebastian Karcher


    Alex Diment
    http://alex.diment.org




    0273-8570
    1557-9263 Style for Wiley Journal of Field Ornithology 2014-10-13T13:59:22+00:00
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License













  • amelia.topham
    I tried to copy and paste it but it won't work for some reason.
  • adamsmith
    paste to a public gist at gist.github.com and provide a link here.
  • amelia.topham
    https://gist.github.com/anonymous/592c977f6a209d1a7fc1

    Hope that's worked okay.

    Thanks
  • adamsmith
    you'd already have (eds) showing up after editors with that style. To change it fine

    <label form="short" text-case="lowercase" strip-periods="true" prefix=" (" suffix=")"/>

    and change to

    <label form="short" prefix=" (" suffix=")" text-case="capitalize-first"/>

    Similarly in the container-contributor macro.

    You handle all citations with the same citation style. This should mostly be fine, isn't it? You can see several parts in the style where it tests for specific item types, things like
    <choose>
    <if type="chapter paper-conference" match="any">

    that's the approach to addressing different formats for different items.
  • amelia.topham
    Hi thank you for your reply.

    I am struggling to understand and read this all, is there any help I could get with someone adapting the style as I need it using what I gave you above? Or anything else I can do?

    Thanks in advance.
  • amelia.topham
    Hi Adam,

    I just wanted to make sure you received my last comment? Is there anything else I can do? Is there a helpline number or anything else I can call or can someone work on this for me?

    Thanks again.

    Amelia
  • fbennett
    edited November 10, 2014
    There is no helpline; the forums are the best channel for help when you have specific problems that you can't figure out.

    The volunteers that provide support here don't have time to provide detailed individual instruction, but if you want CSL style design work done under contract, post a note that you are interested in that, and you should receive responses.

    For figuring out how CSL works, the Visual Editor that you linked to above is very helpful. You can make changes to a style, and immediately see how it affects the form of citations. CSL has been carefully designed, and things really do work exactly as documented in the specification.
  • adamsmith
    (yes, I did see you note, sorry for not responding earlier. Otherwise, exactly what fbennett says)
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