HELP - CREATING A NEW STYLE FOR UNAM

Mariana Tejado · February 3, 2017

Hi all, we are a couple of lawyers who have absolutely NO CLUE on how to create a new style for zotero, but we both study at the Institute of Legal Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) - the biggest university in Mexico. We both think that Zotero would be a super useful tool for law students' papers however the citation style is not in the repository yet. We would really appreciate any help to create one based on the criteria found in the following link:

https://archivos.juridicas.unam.mx/www/site/acerca-de/normativa-interna/criterios_editoriales.pdf

(They are in Spanish)

adamsmith · February 3, 2017

Define "help" -- are you looking for someone to do this? Do you want to do this yourself? Even for someone with experience, styles like these are a _ton_ of work, so not sure how easy it'll be to find volunteers (I won't be able to do this). But if you want to try finding someone, then a) picking one of the 2 styles to prioritize and b) providing the info, especially the sample citations, as explained here: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles will speed things along.

yahir.acosta · September 25, 2018

Hello @adamsmith
Assuming I find someone (only one) who is medium experienced in this sort of task, how many hours would it take him/her to programme the UNAM legal style?

adamsmith · September 26, 2018

a bit hard to say -- depends on the desired quality of the style, how many of the item types to cover etc. I'd budget between 5-10hs if I did this myself, but I'm almost certainly faster at this than most people you'd be able to find, given that I've done 100s of these.