Date Accessed no longer appearing in Bibliography

Hi

I have an amended CSL that included the accessed date after the DOI. This is q requirement for the Open University Journal Articles on this module... This was working last year.. and perhaps a few months ago.. but now, none of the journal articles are outputting the accessed date...

It is printing like this - no date:

Barcellos-Hoff, M. H., Lyden, D. and Wang, T. C. (2013) ‘The evolution of the cancer niche during multistage carcinogenesis’, Nature Reviews Cancer, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 511–518 [Online]. DOI: 10.1038/nrc3536 (Accessed.


<bibliography hanging-indent="true">
<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<key variable="title"/>
</sort>
<layout suffix=".">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="author"/>
<text macro="year-date" prefix="(" suffix=")"/>
<text macro="title" suffix=","/>
<text macro="edition"/>
<text macro="container-prefix"/>
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="editor"/>
<text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>
<text variable="collection-title"/>
<text variable="genre"/>
<text macro="publisher"/>
<text macro="locator"/>
<text macro="published-date"/>
<text macro="pages"/>
<text macro="access"/>
</group>
</group>
<group>
<choose>
<if type="article-journal" match="any">
<text variable="DOI" prefix=" [Online]. DOI: "/>
<text term="accessed" text-case="capitalize-first" prefix=" ("/>
<date form="text" variable="accessed" prefix=" " suffix=")"/>
</if>
</choose>
</group>
</layout>
</bibliography>

Can anyone help? Or should I export everything to Mendeley and try that instead... I might try that as I only have a couple of days left...

Best regards

Oliver
  • Sorry for the delay -- it looks like Zotero has changed it's behavior and will only print accessed dates when the URL exists, too. Try toggling the include URL preference under Cite-->Styles, see if that helps.

    @aurimas -- is that your change? Don't think that's a good idea if it was done on purpose.
  • Yes, sorry. This was an oversight on my part. (Followed a comment in the code rather than the actual code)
  • I checked the always use URL under Cite->Styles.. and this is where the amended function messes up...

    Bjornson, C. R. R., Rietze, R. L., Reynolds, B. A., Magli, M. C. and Vescovi, A. L. (1999) ‘Turning Brain into Blood: A Hematopoietic Fate Adopted by Adult Neural Stem Cells in Vivo’, Science, vol. 283, no. 5401, pp. 534–537, [online] Available from: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/283/5401/534 (Accessed 15 July 2015) [Online]. DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5401.534 (Accessed 15 July 2015).

    I was struggling at the time I wrote the OP against a deadline - I am a software developer in the day... study in the evening... I looks like I will have to define a journal article separate from the generic..

    Looking at RefWorks OU Harvard style which works well...

    Journal Article is defined and does not use the generic format.

    If the 'Reference Source Type' = Print then:
    Add Text '.'
    Else if 'Reference Source Type' = Electronic then:
    Add Text ' [Online]. '
    URL: precede with text 'Available at '
    DOI: precede with text 'DOI: '
    Retrieved Date: preceded with text '(Accessed ' and follow with ').'
    End if

    When outputting references from RefWorks only DOI or URL is printed it prefers DOI.

    They are saying that if we reference a journal article in print form, then we reference the article without url or doi... although a DOI would be useful to help the OU tutors find the article. But if we access these print articles via their subscription databases, we should provide a link to them.. and the date we accessed them.

    Unfortunately in the RefWorks lite version we can view the Citation Style in their editor online.. but there doesn't seem to be a way to export that as a CSL file..
  • (just to be clear, we'll fix the bug you reported in the first message)

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