Change
<if type="article-journal article-magazine chapter paper-conference article-newspaper" match="any">
<group suffix="." delimiter=" ">
<text variable="container-title" form="short"/>
<choose>
to
<if type="article-journal article-magazine chapter paper-conference article-newspaper" match="any">
<group suffix="." delimiter=" ">
<text variable="container-title" form="short" font-style="italic"/>
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This will also italicize book titles of chapters - if that's not OK it's a bit more involved. Also have a look here, this may make things easier for you:
http://steveridout.com/csl/visualEditor/

Finally, once you have your style working, make sure to share it:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Submitting-Styles

Hello Adamsmith,

iw ould like to ask you how to arrange citations for the Journal klinische Pädiatrie (Klin Padiatr). I used the existing style but references are numbered sequentially as they appear in the text, while the Journal requires them to appear alphabetically in the reference lis (in text ciatation with [1], but references sorted alphabetically).

"References: Alphabetically arranged and consecutively numbered.
The text features only the reference numbers in square
brackets. If an article or book has more than 3 authors, it will
be suffi cient to mention only the fi rst 3 authors with the
suffi x “et al.”.
Journals in the List of References
Ohmann, C. Klinische Studien in der Pädiatrie: Herausforder
ungen und aktuelle Entwicklungen. Klin Padiatr 2008; 220:
221–223"

Is it possible to ask you for advice?

Thank You in advance!

Grigore

See https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles

Hi guys. I am struggling to get the right citation style for a journal. I basically need the Vancouver style but in alphabetical order and with the brackets [#], and not parenthesis (#). I am trying to change the vancouver style but i must be doing something wrong. Please help.

Hello adam,

I tried installing Vancouver with alphabetical numbering from the 'Raw' link from http://gist.github.com/277460 (like you suggested years ago).
my problem is I get this error after I drag the file in firefox and it starts installing in zotero. the error is:
canrad.csl" is not a valid CSL 1.0.1 style file, and may not work properly with Zotero

I need to cite and reference with vancouver style but the references don't order alphabetically. I just checked and zotero is up to date. Can you please recommend some advice?

That style has many issues.
Which journal are you trying to submit to? (please provide a link and the ISSN)

OK. I cannot find a publicly available .pdf of a recent journal article in order to confirm this request and then put in a fix for the style. If you have a link to a publicly available article, that'd be great. I searched for 15min.

https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-1471-5700

No. I do not have access to publications behind a paywall.

Danke dir.

Looks like the style needs a custom style.
Should we create a thieme-german-alphabetical.csl or just a custom style for this journal?

Thank you very much!!! This is really kind from you!!

2 PRs submitted. The Thieme style was out of date and I created a custom style for Klin Paed.

Thanks

Please, may I ask you for your patience. The PRs (pull requests) are under review and that will take some time. We're only a bunch of volunteers doing this in our free time. Pushing with several posts doesn't help your case.

Styles have been merged now.