(AOSIS approached us some years back to ask about commissioning these styles, but nothing came of it; they have a range of journals using the same style, but I don't have a list)

I mean, following the instructions from github.com.

AOSIS Publishing manages a number of journals using their own version of Harvard referencing. Of the 93 or so Harvard styles that Zotero offers, I can't find one that matches AOSIS. One that was close was the University of South Australia 2013 – Harvard. I checked Zotero forums and found nothing. So, I request a new style if someone has time to create it.

Here is a link to AOSIS’ online style documentation:
https://aosis.co.za/documents/Harvard_Reference_Style_Guide.pdf

Specifically, I’m preparing an article for the journal HTS Theological Studies,
https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts
ISSN: 0259-9422 (PRINT) | ISSN: 2072-8050 (ONLINE)

Here are two citations. I think I’ve produced them correctly according to the style.

In-text citation:
(Campbell & Pedersen 2007:307-332)
(Mares 2001)

Bibliography:
Campbell, J.L. & Pedersen, O.K., 2007, ‘The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success’, Comparative Political Studies, 40(3), 307–332.
Mares, I., 2001, ‘Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers?’, in P.A. Hall & D. Soskice (eds.), Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage, pp. 184–213, Oxford University Press, New York.


I follow these articles rather than AOSIS’ style guide in using sentence case for titles:
https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/4786/11268#CIT0020_4786
https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/4876/10974

All articles at HTS are open access, so there would be plenty more to check.

Thanks for considering this request.

Thank you.

I don't know if it matters, but the csl file name has a typo (havard instead of harvard).

The style you just linked to says “havad” in the filename instead of “harvard”.

That was quick work! Sorry I just now saw this post and figured out how to install a style manually - Tools > Preferences > + button.

I will test the style and respond soon.

1. fixed
2. fixed
3. fixed. please test this one out. Just coded it without testing.
4. No idea. Adamsmith will know.

https://github.com/POBrien333/styles/raw/a9062e692b7ceb58c609ad89db7912486012dfcd/african-online-scientific-information-systems-harvard.csl

Yes, there’s a plugin.

1. Install the propachi plugin: https://github.com/Juris-M/propachi-vanilla/releases
2. Enable the Uppercase Subtitles option in the Propachi preferences
3. Store your titles in Zotero in sentence case (with lowercase letters after the colon)
4. Store the part of the title before the colon in the Short Title field

Zotero will now uppercase all subtitles.

Thanks @damnation for fixing those problems. I’ve found others:

1. Multiple in-text references should be separated by semicolons rather than commas. They should look like this:

Recent studies (Bradford 1992; Curtis 1983; Graham 1997) agree that …

But they currently look like this:

Recent studies (Bradford 1992, Curtis 1983, Graham 1997) agree that …

2. Translators disappear in the bibliography. They should be in this style:

Bakhtin, M., 1984, Rabelais and his world, transl. H. Iswolsky, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

3. Editions should appear like this

Dyson, G.G.H., 1977, The mechanics of athletics, 7th edn., Homes and Meier, New York.

But instead they appear like this

Dyson, G.G.H., 1977, The mechanics of athletics 7th edition, Homes and Meier, New York.

Once you make updates, I assume I need to download the style again.

And thanks, @bwiernik. The uppercase subtitles option works well!

Thanks for the quick responses.

2. is partly working, but there should be a comma after the title and ‘transl.’ rather than ‘tran.’ So, instead of

Bakhtin, M., 1984, Rabelais and his world tran. H. Iswolsky, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

It would be:

Bakhtin, M., 1984, Rabelais and his world, transl. H. Iswolsky, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

3. is also partly working, but if I enter ‘new edn.’ Or ‘revised edn.’ Into the edition field, it comes out like this

Bruner, F.D., 2007, Matthew: A commentary revised edn. , Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich.

When it should look like this (with added comma and a space after edn. taken away)

Bruner, F.D., 2007, Matthew: A commentary, revised edn., Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Also,

4. Would it be possible to allow something like ‘forthcoming, 2018’ to be displayed as the date in the bibliography, or would this just mess things up? When I enter that information, the date is just displayed as ‘2018’.

4. @damnation You should change the year to display both the ‘status’ and ‘issued’ variables.

@robheimburger Enter the data in Extra like this:
Status: forthcoming

Yep, that should work.

3b. ed. vs edn.: fixed
3a. This outputs like this for me:
Dunnett, N. & Kingsbury, N., 2008, Planting green roofs and living walls, 2nd edn., Timber Press, Portland, OR.

https://github.com/POBrien333/styles/raw/b46f1223e1628d06ad8978232dd0dda2e3f50612/african-online-scientific-information-systems-harvard.csl

3a: Now I understand.

https://github.com/POBrien333/styles/raw/c34be9de3086e08c8eb6edd0b45d3fb4899dcb02/african-online-scientific-information-systems-harvard.csl