Style Request: eLIFE

Hi Zotero members and developers,

Would you please help to set up a Zotero style for the eLIFE journal?
We are going to submit a manuscript to this journal.
Please check the link below for detail instruction for eLIFE style:
https://submit.elifesciences.org/html/eLife_Author_Guide.pdf

Although eLIFE allows the many current styles including Harvard, Vancouver, and Chicago, the specific style to eLIFE guideline is very necessary. I really appreciate your help to make a specific style for the eLIFe.


Thank you,
  • edited June 22, 2018
    https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles

    Note that we need you to format the exact two references at that link (Campbell and Mares) according to the style.
  • edited June 22, 2018
    As someone who has published in and regularly reads eLife, I wouldn't say that it is very necessary to have an eLife style, since they seem to have the very healthy philosophy that scientists should not ever have to worry about citation styles, and they and their software will convert from any reasonable citation style to theirs. I wish all journals took that approach.

    However, eLife (despite the silly name) has become a force in biomedical publishing, and a respected high-impact journal. It would allay the fears of authors who use Zotero, if they could find a style that matches eLife's, as they are preparing their manuscripts.

    Here is a style request. There is a bit of a mismatch between their current published style and their document that describes the style (hopefully I didn't botch it):

    The link to the style documentation:
    https://submit.elifesciences.org/html/eLife_Author_Guide.pdf

    ISSN: 2050-084X (electronic version, no print).

    In-text citation:
    
(Campbell and Pedersen, 2007)

    (Mares, 2001)
    (Carpenter et al., 2016; Carpenter and Tate, 2017a)

    Journal article:
    Campbell JL, Pedersen OK. 2007. The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success. Comp Polit Stud 40:307–32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414006286542, PMID: 00000000

    Book:
    Mares I. 2001. Firms and the welfare state: when, why, and how does social policy matter to employers? In: Hall PA, Soskice D, editors. Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 91–4.

    Conference Paper:
    Rowling L. Schools and grief: how does Australia compare to the United States. In: Wandarna coowar: hidden grief. Paper presented at the proceedings of the 8th National Conference of the National Association for Loss and Grief (Australia), Yeppoon, Queensland. 1993. Turramurra, NSW: National Association for Loss and Grief. p196–201.

    Online reference work:
    Graham G. Behaviorism. In: Zalta EN, editor. 2007. The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Fall 2007 ed). http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/.

    Podcast:
    Van Nuys D. (Producer). 2007. Shrink rap radio [Audio podcast]. http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/.

    Contribution to a blog:
    Myers PZ. 2007. The unfortunate prerequisites and consequences of partitioning your mind [Web log post]. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/01/22/the-unfortunate-prerequisites/.

    Dataset:
    Piwowar HA, Vision TJ, Whitlock MC. 2011. Data from: data archiving is a good investment. Dryad Digital Repository. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.j1fd7.

    All eLife papers are available online, but here is one recent paper:

    https://www.elifesciences.org/articles/35946

    which has a downloadable pdf here:

    https://www.elifesciences.org/download/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uZWxpZmVzY2llbmNlcy5vcmcvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMzU5NDYvZWxpZmUtMzU5NDYtdjIucGRm/elife-35946-v2.pdf?_hash=mxFwi0z2a7+G2SlbSDnvIsMdJ6JxaJ7/AonDhrBNJ3w=

    Their html and pdf versions don't match in style, but I guess we want ... the pdf version?
  • Thank you, Enozkan.
    I am repairing the request but you did a very good job.
    I hope someone else can help to make a style as your standard.

    Despite the journal does not require a correct reference style, the better preparation, the higher probability that the MS is accepted. This is the first time we try eLIFE, we want to make everything perfect.
  • Thank you @damnation

    This matches the guidelines on their webpage. The pdf and the html versions are different, but it is perfectly good given that they are explicitly not picky about this. Thanks again. Probably with 5-10,000 submissions a year to this journal (their acceptance rate is only ~15%), this will help a lot of people.

    One silly note: I think the journal is called eLife, not eLIFE. I checked their webpage, in citations and other relevant places (such as NLM). They have it stylized in logo with capitals, but that's just a stylized logo.
  • edited June 23, 2018
    @luongthang1908 No problem. I have been meaning to do this, and had the request mostly typed up already. Your message helped overcome my procrastination. Thank you.
  • Style is on the repository now, as eLife.
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