Keep in mind: most styles are developed using unpaid labor; someone steps up and offers to help. So if you're going to ask for these syles, you need to be willing to do a minimal amount of work to make it easier for people to do this.

In short, links please?

Style for the Journal of Archaeological Science tossed. See the style repository.

I'm really busy these days. But one thing that you could do that would be really helpful is to find the existing style that most closely matches the ones you want, and then itemize exactly the differences. That's more time-consuming than the actual code issues.

Yes, I'm Bruce.

Re: a style editor, yes, it's been discussed a lot. There's a working version that someone here came up with here, and I've also written about some ideas.

Working on a style for AJPA...

Thanks Rintze, I have some information for American Antiquity here. Its based on the American Sociological Association, which is pretty close.

et al. rules:
no et al. in references cited, list all authors
for intext citations use et al. starting with 3 or more authors

American Sociology Style
Ambrose, Stanley H. 1990. “Preparation and characterization of bone and tooth collagen for isotopic analysis.” Journal of Archaeological Science 17:431― 451.

American Antiquity Style
Ashmore, Wendy
1991 Site-Planning Principles and Concepts of Directionality Among the Ancient
Maya. Latin American Antiquity 2:199–226.

Journal Entry: remove quotations, remove period after year, place year on second line and indent as per example, replace em-dash between page numbers with normal dash, Journal title should be italicized.

American Sociology Style
Ambrose, Stanley H, and Lynette Norr. 1993. “Experimental evidence for the relationship of the carbon isotope ratios of whole diet and dietary protein to those of bone collagen and carbonate.” P. 1―37 in Prehistoric Human Bone: Archaeology at the Molecular Level, edited by J. B Lambert and G. Grupe. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

American Antiquity Style
Kohl, Philip L.
1987 The Use and Abuse of World Systems Theory: The Case of the Pristine
West Asian State. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 11,
edited by Michael. B. Schiffer, pp. 1–35. Academic Press, San Diego.


Book Chapter: remove quotation marks, place year on second line and indent, move page numbers to after the editors names and add a period. Note volume goes between book name and editors. Switch publisher and city and use a comma between them, book name should be in italics.

American Sociology Style
Aten, Lawrence E. 1983. Indians of the Upper Texas Coast. New York: Academic Press.

American Antiquity Style
Morales Padrón, Fransisco
1971 Historia del descubrimiento y conquista de América. 2nd ed. Editora
Nacional, Madrid.

Book: move date down to second line, indent, remove period. Switch city and publisher, use comma instead of colon, book title should be in italics.

Included below are examples of other specific formats if you have questions not covered above:


3.9.3 Edited or compiled book (editor or compiler as "author")
McHugh, William P. (editor)
1977 The Teaching of Archaeology. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.

3.9.6 Book or other item, no author
SCS Engineers
1986 A Survey of Household Hazardous Waste and Related Collection Programs.
SCS Engineers, Reston, Virginia.

3.9.7 Multivolume set
Biggar, Henry P. (editor)
1929 The Works of Samuel de Champlain, vol. III. The Champlain Society,
Toronto.

3.9.11 Article in a magazine, no author
The Indian Homeland
1991 U.S. News and World Report. 8 July:27–28.

3.9.16 Paper presented at a meeting
Adams, Jenny
2002 The Technology of Ritual Behavior. Paper presented at the 67th Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver.

Report
Elston, Robert G., Jonathan O. Davis, and G. Townsend
1976 An Intensive Archeological Investigation of the Hawkins Land Exchange
Site. Nevada Archeological Survey. Submitted to USDA Forest Service, Contract
No. 3905320. Copies available from Nevada Archeological Survey, Reno.
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3.9.19 Dissertation or thesis
Fritz, Gayle J.
1986 Prehistoric Ozark Agriculture: The University of Arkansas Rockshelter
Collections. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

err I can't make the indents appear correctly in this forum, I still need this style for my diss, granted I don't have to defend until the New Year.. but it would be one less thing for me to worry about. And this is the archaeological standard, so all archaeologists could use zotero too..

@ossified65: The "indents" issue you note is I think much more complicated, and likely not supported by CSL at the moment. If I understand correctly, if you have multiple entries from the same author, then the author is dropped from all but the first. I doubt there's a way to do this now, though we have discussed adding support for such "grouping" functionality.

So for that, expect that you may have to do some hand-editing when you're done with your thesis. That's not that big a deal, though.

It is tricky, but thank you very much Rintze.. I don't know why they made it so complicated.

Jahardin, using csledit.xul (type chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul in your address bar), select a few records, and preview all available styles to find the one that matches most closely. If you can enumerate the key differences with Chicago or whatever style is most similar, I can have a stab at creating the CSL for AAA.

I have done a style for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute - or at least as close as I can get. Like AAA, JRAI bibliographies don't repeat authors, but I haven't been able to overcome this.

For more obscure types of citations it will just follow the ASA format.

I will submit it as soon as I have got access to SVN or I can email the file to anyone who wants to put it up for me. Just contact me through this forum.

Can you post the csl file somewhere? Maybe a 'works in progress' page for CSL's?

If everything is working except the formatting of the multiple author references, it would be very useful to have this available anyway. The multiple author references could be fixed manually after bibliography generation, since there often are not many of these.

I thought you were referring to American Antiquity.

You won't get very far trying to do AAA with the style generator. To avoid re-inventing the wheel, have a look at this thread:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4691/citation-style-help-needed-anthropology-aaa/#Item_10

I have an ugly but functional workaround to the no-tabs problem. You can take a look at the results at http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/zotero/. I modified the American Anthropologist style to add "@@" at the 2 places that need tabs. Just do a find/replace, adjust the hanging indent and tab settings in the word processor to look good (I did a tab at 0.5" and hanging indent at 1.0").

I also modified the American Anthropologist style into an American Antiquity style. I don't know if I caught all the differences, but I think I got most of them. They are not much different.

I posted PDF examples of output from each. I simply selected the formats and dragged them into OpenOffice Write. I did not try to create in-text citations and make a bibliography.