Troubleshooting with Vancouver Citation

Lorenz1280 · November 16, 2015

Hey,

i'm actually writing my thesis and i have some really bad problems.

1.) How can i delete all pagenumbers (i have typed them manually in the citation window) in In-text-citations, excluded citations of books ?
For example: (1 p.5-7; 2 p.3) to (1; 2 p.3)

1 Journal article
2 Book

2.) How can i change in the bibliography "Herausgeber" to "[Hrsg.]"?

I hope you can help me!

Thanks! yours Lorenz

adamsmith · November 16, 2015

1) I don't quite understand -- which citation window? And this is the plain "Vancouver" style? Because that shouldn't look like what you have above.

2) the general idea would be to change the label from <label form="long" prefix=", "/> to
<label form="short" prefix=" [" suffix="]"/> every time it occurs, but details may very depending on the specific style you're using.

Lorenz1280 · November 16, 2015

adamsmith

Thank you for your answers! I'm using the plain Vancouver Style, basically

to 2.) i managed that

to 1.) Every time i did an in-text citation a typed the pagenumber in the citation window (It poped up automatically). And now i want to delete or not display them all.

Lorenz1280 · November 16, 2015

I mean this window

https://picload.org/image/pccowiw/zotero.png

adamsmith · November 16, 2015

and you're absolutely positive you're using the regular Vancouver style from zotero.org/styles (or preinstalled with Zotero)?
That should never print page numbers in the text (whether you enter them or not) _and_ it would place commas, not semicolons, between numbers.
Could you link to a (ideally bigger so it's readable) screenshot of your "Set Document Preferences" settings of the Zotero Word add-on?

Lorenz1280 · November 16, 2015

I did it, i inserted a "conditional", if book then display the page locater. Yeah i know it is not the originally vancouver style, it's a little bit changed.

one last question please:

How can i change u.a in et al. (i don't want to change the language)
i found this https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/38746/elsevier-change-ua-to-et-al/
but i don't get it to work.

adamsmith · November 16, 2015

that basically is the solution, the details depend on your customized citation style (e.g. it may already have terms defined for the German locale, in which case you only need the <term line, etc.) so if you can't get it to work, we'd have to see your whole custom style (post to gist.github.com or pastebin.com and link -- make sure it's a site where I don't need to download it to look at it, e.g. don't post to Dropbox).