Request style for Water SA journal

Guide for authors: http://www.wrc.org.za/SiteCollectionDocuments/Water SA documents/Water SA Guide to Authors.pdf

Home page (open access paper available from): https://www.ajol.info/index.php/wsa/index or http://www.wrc.org.za/Pages/KH_WaterSA.aspx?dt=5&ms=62;

Examples: inline citation (Campbell and Pedersen, 2007)
Reference: CAMBELL JL and PEDERSEN OK (2007) The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success. Comparative Political Studies 40 (3) 307–332. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414006286542

(Mares, 2001)
MARES I (2001) Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers? In Hall PA and Soskice D (Eds.) Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage. Oxford University Press, New York.
  • I've made the style. Let us know if it needs any changes: https://github.com/damnation333/styles/blob/ba57a9138819e34118ff334f8d517799f6d11784/water-sa.csl (rght click and save as...)
  • Thank you very much. I see this errors:

    Journal article: missing dot between name of article and name of journal
    book and chapter in book: Place, Publisher instead of correct Publisher, Place
    thesis and report: name of thesis is in italic but correct is non italic (normal) font
    thesis: place of university is not showed in the guide for authors
    thesis: type of thesis is not in parentheses in guide
    thesis: between name of thesis and type of thesis is dot
    proceedings: missing name of conference, for example: if I have name of proceedings = "proceedings of" and name of conference = "the 9th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion – Anaerobic Conversion for Sustainability" I got only "proceedings of" (there could be capitalized first letter)
    proceedings: the publisher is not in the guidance showed
    personal comunication (interview, email): after the name of author is only year in parentheses correctly, full date is behind tthe Title (I´ve tested it with Title = "personal comunication" but I think it these Zotero types can be with empty Title
    report: type of report and number of report is not in parentheses
    report: correctly should to be Publisher, Place.
    report: missing Number of pages on the end of reference

    Thanks again for your great work
  • Some fixes made: https://github.com/damnation333/styles/blob/1aba913b1d00b861300c716484450d25f8cc9d21/water-sa.csl

    Not done everything as I'll need more time. Can you double check what's missing?
    Re the proceedings issue: Can you check in your library if it has only "proceedings of" or "proceedings of the 9th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion" in the container-title?
  • I have in the Container title "proceeding of" and "the 9th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion – Anaerobic Conversion for Sustainability" is in the Conference Name.

    I see this errors:
    inline citation: Where more than two authors are involved, the first author’s name followed by 'et al.' (not italicised) should be used.
    journal article: missing dot after pages
    book: title of book is not italicized
    book: missing dot after place
    chapter in book: title of book is not italicized
    chapter in book: if Book Author is used (instead of Editor) then bibliography looks like "PH Gleick" instead of "Gleick PH"
    thesis: place of university is not showed in the guide for authors
    proceedings: the publisher is not showed in the guidance
    proceedings: missing name of conference (as in my last message)
    report: correctly should be Publisher, Place not Place: Publisher
    report: missing dot after report number

    Thanks for quick reply
  • proceedings: missing name of conference, for example: if I have name of proceedings = "proceedings of" and name of conference = "the 9th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion – Anaerobic Conversion for Sustainability" I got only "proceedings of" (there could be capitalized first letter)
    That's not how you want this in Zotero. That won't work with any of the citation styles. You'll want "Proceedings of the 9th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion – Anaerobic Conversion for Sustainability" in the proceedings title. You can add the conference title, but in most cases it'll get ignored in the style (since the relevant info are the proceedings).
  • In some cases is the title of conference proceedings book "empty" or completely different from the name of the conference. For these cases, I add to iso690-author-date-cs.csl drawing name of the conference too. I am not sure if it is necessary in this case.
  • edited April 3, 2017
    New version here. Still need to do the proceedings stuff here. That takes me more time as I'll need to add that in all the various macros. This style is quite elaborate, but high quality. Takes longer to edit.
    https://github.com/damnation333/styles/blob/7e6bb9d97d95239e998d0e7d908aa67371a68a13/water-sa.csl
  • I've looked at your code and have these recommendations:
    1. change on line 594 et-al-min="6" to et-al-min="3"
    2. add in line 37 name-as-sort-order="all"
    3. from macro name="issued" can be completely deleted lines 347-359
    4. to the macro name="title-plus-extra" add code
    <else-if type="interview personal_communication" match="any">
    <group prefix=", " delimiter=" ">
    <date variable="issued">
    <date-part name="day"/>
    <date-part name="month"/>
    <date-part name="year"/>
    </date>
    </group>
    </else-if>
    before
    <else-if type="post-weblog webpage" match="any"> tag
    5. to the macro name="title" add code
    <else-if type="interview personal_communication" match="any">
    <text variable="title"/>
    </else-if>
    before <else> tag
    6. delete suffix=" " from <text macro="title-plus-extra" suffix=" "/> on line 618 (I am not sure, why it is in this line)


  • @LiborA -- you should be able to comment on the code on github directly, no? Feel free to do so.
  • @adamsmith you're right, but I every time forgot on this github's functionality.
  • edited April 3, 2017
    Thanks @LiborA !! Saves me a lot of "wrecking my brain".
    Made the changes: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/273341/#Comment_273341
  • I've asked the editor of Water SA about "place of the university is not showed in the guide for authors" and the answer is that it is not a problem to involve the place of the university to the bibliography.
    @damnation do you create a new version of the style? I've agreed with editor to send output from style template to the editor for checking the accuracy.
  • edited April 4, 2017
    @LiborA
    I've incorporated your comments from yesterday into the style (https://github.com/damnation333/styles/blob/3e65aac771db4b2ad26840fba344ac0f7de03358/water-sa.csl), so you can use that as a base and we can then make further changes on GitHub.

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