Editing an existing referencing style

louiseridden
Hi :)

The Modern Humanities 3rd Edition referencing style is closest to the one I need, but wondered how to edit the code to make a couple of small changes. The formatting of the bibliography is right, but I need to change the ordering of the author's name in the footnote (e.g. currently shows as Hannah Arendt, and I need it as Arendt, H.). I know how to open the code, but not sure which line(s) need changing to do this?

  • damnation
    In the contributors-note macro you would add initialize-with="." name-as-sort-order="all" to the line starting with "name".

    Test your code with this tool to make sure you did it right: https://validator.citationstyles.org/

  • louiseridden
    That's great, thank you!

    is there also a way of making Zotero use 'short title' on subsequent footnotes where something has already been cited, and ibid. when directly above?

    Thanks again!
  • damnation
    Yes, you will need to copy that over from another style.
    For example see Chicago note lines 1255 onwards.
    It tests for ibid-with-locator, then ibid. You can just add "subsequent" like the ibid before and then close it off with an "else" for a normal printout.
    view-source:https://www.zotero.org/styles/chicago-note-bibliography-16th-edition?source=1

    (if you run into problems and need specific help then upload your code to a Gist on GitHub or PasteBin and give us the link here)

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