a) you can import Endnote styles into Zotero
b) there's a beta version of a style creator here: http://www.somwhere.org/demo/
c) there's a guide on how to write your own .csl styles here: http://dev.zotero.org/creating_citation_styles

hope one of theses helps.

Bonjour,

I search also in French Humanities and literature. I have the same problem to find a "french style". It's not so easy to create one when you are not used too.
I still not really understand why French scholars don't seem to use bibliographic tool like Endnote and Zotero...
We are certainly not the only ones to have this problem. Maybe we can make a kind of " "french group" to discuss about tolls for French Humanities. There is not a lot of "translators" too for french database.

Luc

for endnote styles look here - you don't have to own the software in order to download (and use) the style and there are so many that there's at least a chance you can find one you need.
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp

You're right on the style creator it can't do footnotes, I didn't see that.
I agree with Sean - look at Chicago (full note) style and see what needs to be changed.
If you feel like exploring on yourself (which is quite interesting and very much in the spirit of open source) look at the csl documentation here:
http://dev.zotero.org/csl_syntax_summary
modify the Chicago style and tests your results on the cool Zt test pane here:
chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul
but as Sean said you can also just ask for help here

Hello everyone,
Thank you for your comments and suggestions (and useful links). I had a look at Endnote styles, but found nothing closer to what I would need other than Chicago style.
So I think we might just begin with trying to figure out what we would need, in terms of style, as French humanities researchers (so Luc, if you've got an opinion about it...) I know that language isn't relevant, except that in French we use "dans" and not "in" for parts of books, "éd." and not "ed.", « » quotation marks, and not "" etc.
Are there any other people interested in defining what we need? Then we could try to change the Chicago style (I'm willing to give it a go, if I manage to)
I found these edition rules on a website. Any comments?

Pour les citations en note de bas de page:
o Nom de l’auteur en petites capitales, précédé de l’initiale du prénom suivi d’un point et d’un espace insécable ; puis vient le titre en italique, suivi du lieu et de la date d’édition. Tous ces éléments sont séparés par une virgule.
Ex. : G. DUBY,Guillaume le Maréchal, Paris, 1984.
o Dans le cas d’ouvrages collectifs, d’éditions, de traductions : titre de l’article entre parenthèses, indiquer « dans », puis le titre de l’ouvrage en italique, puis le nom du directeur, de l’éditeur ou du traducteur suivi de dir., éd. ou trad.
Ex. : J.-P. AZÉMA, « La guerre », dans Pour une Histoire politique, R. RÉMOND dir., Paris, 1988, p. 250-270.
o Pas de « dans » comme séparateur entre le titre de l’article et celui de la revue. Référence au tome et à l’année comme suit : E. GALTIER, « Byzantina », Romania, 29(1900), p. 501-527.
o Indiquer les collections de la manière suivante : Max Weber. Der Historiker, J. KOCKA dir., Göttingen, 1986 (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 73).
o On n’indiquera pas le nombre total de pages d’un livre
o Dans la bibliographie, tout pareil, sauf que le nom précède le prénom (DUBY, G.)

sounds great. Don't be shy about asking for help with specific questions here and if you do make a modified version (or several) of Chicago style don't forget to upload it to the repository.

I see a lot of people asking for new doc types, new styles.

While a more robust solution is developed, this could be done in a few days: have an upgrade version with a general "document" type with as many fields as possible. I miss fields like Institution, Place, Publisher... Then have some generic styles to handle just this expanded "document" type.

That will help my life, while I wait for a more "definite" solution, e.g, a tool to customize doc types and styles.

;-)

While a more robust solution is developed, this could be done in a few days: have an upgrade version with a general "document" type with as many fields as possible. I miss fields like Institution, Place, Publisher... Then have some generic styles to handle just this expanded "document" type.

It is unclear if you are making a feature request or are advising other users how to handle not having direct support for their types.

Zotero already has a document type & CSL is already able to down-play the role of types in formatting (so that the document type should be correctly formatted most of the time). So, I don't think you are requesting anything that isn't already present.

Your proposed workflow is excellent advice for others!

The poster is suggesting that the longtime limitations in the "Document" type in Zotero be fixed now

Ah--makes sense. The ticket lists place & publisher is already supported. It would be nice if Document was a true superset of all existing types, though--one should be able to change a book to a document with no data loss, etc.

I have a similar problem with styles offered in zotero, but I am confused now, is there a way to import endnote styles or not? If it is possible, how exactly can it be done? Thanks a lot!

"The present sync beta version of Zotero is able to use EndNote styles as-is. "

Sorry if I am being dense, you mean I can import an existing style, but not change it? Correct? So if my styles exist in Endnote, then I can use them in Zotero 1.5? So the function to edit them was/is disabled, but not to use them?

Thanks for the clarification either way!

Clear now, thanks.

Bonjour jvillemaire!

I know UQAM's style, and I use it sometimes. I just begin to try to create a "style en français" pour Zotero. It's not complete now, but it works on my Zotero. I'll be very happy to show you and discuss (en français) with you about it.
We can communicate more directly to do it. My address is at the bottom of Jacques Ferron website (www.ecrivain.net/ferron) under "Rédaction et conception générales"

Ça me fera plaisir d'en discuter en français. À bientôt.

Radu's new thread on a French style: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4738/