Style Error: Science Advances

fhjoyce13
edited February 20, 2018
The Science Advances instructions for authors says the following:

"Do not use op. cit., ibid., or et al. See below for details of citation style."

(http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/information-authors)

But the citation output does not list all authors, and uses et al..

E.g.:

Q. Chen et al., Pollutants in Plastics within the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Environmental Science & Technology. 52, 446–456 (2018).
  • damnation
    Science-advances is currently a dependent for Science.csl (guidelines: http://www.sciencemag.org/authors/instructions-preparing-initial-manuscript).
    Looks like we need a different style for sci-advances as the science.csl seems to have et al. rules?
  • fhjoyce13
    edited February 21, 2018
    Actually, I think this issue stems from differences in how Science/Science Advances list references between print/pdf and html versions of articles.

    For online full text, they display all author names. For print/pdf, they use et al..

    I think that the Zotero Science style reflects the print version of the style, although for manuscript submission purposes, the online version may be more relevant.
  • damnation
    Generally journals want the style they put into their pdfs. When I make styles I ALWAYS go by what's in the pdf, not in the online version. This one is fine then and you can ignore it.

  • rdurbin
    No. It is not fine and we can not ignore it. Science require submission in their online format, with all authors. Is there a style definition for that?
  • bwiernik
    @damnation Science and its related journals has a much different citation style for submission than for publication. The “with titles” version of this style is what is used for submissions. It should have the et-al rules removed (and possibly be renamed to “submission” and “publication” or sinilar).
  • chefi1988
    Are there any updates on this issue? Currently there is an error in the style science advances because in the bibliography the references still show et.al which is not correct.
  • adamsmith
    We'll change this in Science but haven't yet.
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