Epilepsia citation style

markrbower
I could not find the style for the journal Epilepsia in any of the threads. Journal identifiers are:

ISSN:
0013-9580 (Print)
1528-1167 (Electronic)
0013-9580 (Linking)

Other ID:
(DNLM)E11360000(s)
(OCoLC)01568121
NLM ID:
2983306R [Serial]

The author instructions call the format a "modified Vancouver style" where citations are superscripts and the bibliography replaces all authors after the third by "et. al.". The current Vancouver style did this on some of my references, but not all, which was strange.

Hope I followed the citation request format!
Mark
  • LiborA
    In the first step try to find the same or similar style on http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/

    If you do not find style according to Epilepsia journal rules then follow instruction on https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles

    Thx
  • markrbower
    Thank you for the quick reply. Did both of those things originally, but the closest match was not good (the website said a 9% match). The "Requesting Styles" webpage said to give the Instructions for Authors description (that was where I got the "modified Vancouver style") along with the journal ID numbers. Not sure what else to do.
  • LiborA
    edited May 26, 2016
    The website is not a common resource for references. Or did you mean journal articles available online?
    The "Requesting Styles" web page describes 4 points for requesting new style. The point 3 said something about 2 examples. Follow these points. Information "modified Vancouver style" is not enough for new style creation.
    Are somewhere available rules or examples of references for Epilepsia journal?

    EDIT: Did you try Korean Journal of Anesthesiology style. It seems very similar
  • adamsmith
    (if you got 9% match, you didn't use the tool correctly; it's basically impossible to get under 50% when actually using the data from the references on the left).
  • markrbower
    To LiborA, the format style is "Vancouver". The modification is that the references are numbered superscripts ยน , where Vancouver has numbers in parentheses (1).
  • adamsmith
    There's a superscript version available: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:vancouver-superscript
  • markrbower
    That looks great! Thanks!
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