need citation style

Philipp.Nuske
Hi,

our company would like to give zotero a try. However, the citation and bibliography style should not change:

- [1] (in text)
- [1] Author, Title, Date (in bibliography)
- words (like "accessed on ...") should be in german.

I searched extensively on http://editor.citationstyles.org/about/

The closest, I could find, was IEEE
(http://editor.citationstyles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zotero.org%2Fstyles%2Fieee)

However, there are a couple of, say, not perfect issues:
- We would like all titles to be without quotation marks
- We would like all types to have coma as delimiter
- If there is no date specified, the fullstop should be after the title (current output is "title. ." )
- If dates were specified in a german style (27. Nov. 2016 rather than 27-Nov-2016) that would be a dream come true.

Can somebody help me in achieving this?

Thanks a great deal in advance

cheers
Philipp
  • adamsmith
    Could you clarify what you're looking for in terms of help? Pointers to code? Someone to do this for you? Someone to hire to do this for you?
  • Philipp.Nuske
    all of the above would be greatly appreciated. Th order in my wishlist would be:
    - pointer to existing style (which I might have missed)
    - someone who adoptes an existing style
    - someone to hire (depending on pricce, I guess)
    - pointers to instructions.

    However, a very important issue is stability. We would like to adopt a style, which is easy to apply and which does not break with the next new version.

    thanks
  • adamsmith
    1. How is Vancouver Brackets? And have you seen http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/
    Note that even styles that are set to English as default are trivially easy to switch, so don't worry about the term language.
    2. Given limited time, I spend all the time I'm volunteering on high-impact styles, mostly journals and some major styleguides (e.g. currently the MLA 8th edition). Not sure if there's someone else.
    3. I don't know if there are other people, but I'm definitely the industry leader in coding custom CSL styles (it's a very small industry ;). If you have a styleguide, I can give you an exact quote. Generally it'll range between $150 (some small tweaks to an existing style) to $300 (very unusual or including lots of item types, including many legal ones). e-mail here: http://www.sebastiankarcher.com/curriculum-vitae/
    4. Instructions: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

    Any valid CSL style will keep working -- I don't want to say forever, but a very long time. If we release a new CSL version that's not backward compatible (and if we do that, it won't be soon), we will also provide an XSLT file that will allow one-click conversion.
  • Philipp.Nuske
    thanks for the answer!

    I used http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ a lot, but could not find anything matching.

    vancouver brackets is not really what we are looking for:
    - no complete date in bibliography (type document) (we would need that for stuff like meeting minutes)
    - in bibliography no brackets "[]" around citation number
    - only german date style in web citation (law: Mai 2, 2013, document: 2015, report: 2012 Nov)

    thanks for info and quote, sounds really fair.

    Would it also be an option, for us to adopt a style and pay you proof-reading of the code?
  • adamsmith
    Would it also be an option, for us to adopt a style and pay you proof-reading of the code?
    generally yes, but I'm not sure you're better off doing that -- but if you're interested, let's continue this over e-mail (gerne auch auf Deutsch), I don't want to spam the forums with business negotiations ;)
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