Upgrade StorageStyle Request: Multilingual Matters
Hi there,
I'm relatively new to Zotero. I'm trying to find a citation style that best matches what's requested by the publisher of my monograph. Is there a way when I use 'Style Preview' in the Cite tab of Preferences to see what an in-text citation will look like with a page reference? This is important to me because I am often able to find what seems like the perfect style but then there is a problem in terms of the way the page reference is formatted (I want [YEAR]:[SPACE][PAGE NUMBER], e.g. Smith 2005: 53).
I'm relatively new to Zotero. I'm trying to find a citation style that best matches what's requested by the publisher of my monograph. Is there a way when I use 'Style Preview' in the Cite tab of Preferences to see what an in-text citation will look like with a page reference? This is important to me because I am often able to find what seems like the perfect style but then there is a problem in terms of the way the page reference is formatted (I want [YEAR]:[SPACE][PAGE NUMBER], e.g. Smith 2005: 53).
There is no easy way to find that, but since you're going to submit to a publisher, we can look at making a custom style.
What's the publisher and do you have a link to the citation guidelines handy?
Alternatively, if you found something that matches all your requirements, but the citation-locator, then we can always guide you how to adapt that. Fairly easy.
The publisher is Multilingual Matters. Of course it would great to have the custom style created! The style is outlined at the end of this document: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/resources/docs/Author guidelines.docx
I've tried various styles but there always seem to be a few differences (e.g. the colon instead of comma + p.; 'eds' instead of 'Eds.' etc.). I've looked at modifying the style with the editor but it's beyond me without help …
can I ask you to:
1. Change the thread title to: Style Request: Multilingual Matters?
2. Review the following: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/1c1507cf649aa2ed1ccd761510c91a2cd16a0ae0/multilingual-matters.csl
Looking good … there are a few little differences from the style guide and a couple of things that aren't working. Shall I list them here?
1. item type:
Current output:
Wanted output:
1 Book / book chapter
Current output: (2nd/3rd ed.)
Wanted output: (2nd/3rd edn)
2 Book / book chapter [editor]
Current output: (ed)
Wanted output: (ed.)
3 Document
Current output: author (year). accessed [date]
Wanted output: author (year). TITLE, accessed [data]
4 Book / book chapter
Current output: Vol. X
Wanted output: (Vol. X)
5 Dictionary entry
Current output: . accessed [date]
Wanted output: , accessed [date]
6 Conference paper
Current output: author (year). Title. website
Wanted output: author (year). Title, conference name. Date.
6) I don't see any guidance for this in the guidelines. It gives a conference paper for me like this.
Edinger, J., Breitbach, M., Gabrisch, N., Schafer, D., Becker, C. and Rizk, A. (2021) Decentralized Low-Latency Task Scheduling for Ad-Hoc Computing. In 2021 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) (pp. 776–785). Portland, OR, USA: IEEE.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/888a40e4935b33ef6aa49488dbb80630feeabf79/multilingual-matters.csl
1/2 book / book chapter
Current output: Amrani, F. (2011) The process of evaluation: a publisher’s view. In B. Tomlinson (ed) Materials development in language teaching (2nd ed.) (pp. 267–295). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wanted output: Amrani, F. (2011) The process of evaluation: a publisher’s view. In B. Tomlinson (ed.) Materials development in language teaching (2nd edn) (pp. 267–295). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Note: So (ed.) not (ed) + (2nd edn) not (2nd ed.)
3 Current output: Bowen, T. (2006). accessed 26 January 2022. https://www.onestopenglish.com/methodology-the-world-of-elt/teaching-approaches-the-grammar-translation-method/146493.article.
Wanted output: Bowen, T. (2006). Teaching approaches: the grammar-translation method, accessed 26 January 2022. https://www.onestopenglish.com/methodology-the-world-of-elt/teaching-approaches-the-grammar-translation-method/146493.article.
Note: Title is missing in current output. Need comma instead of stop before 'accessed'.
4 Current output: Corder, S.P. (1975) Applied linguistics and language teaching. In J.P.B. Allen and S.P. Corder (eds) The Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics. (pp. 1–15). Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wanted output: Corder, S.P. (1975) Applied linguistics and language teaching. In J.P.B. Allen and S.P. Corder (eds) The Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics (pp. 1–15) (Vol. 2). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5 Current output: Merriam-Webster. (2022) shall (verb). In Merriam-Webster.com. accessed 14 January 2022. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shall.
Wanted output: Merriam-Webster. (2022) shall (verb). In Merriam-Webster.com, accessed 14 January 2022. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shall.
6 Current output: Gabrielatos, C. (2003) Conditional sentences: ELT typology and corpus evidence.
Wanted output: Gabrielatos, C. (2003) Conditional sentences: ELT typology and corpus evidence. 36th Annual BAAL Meeting. 4 September.
(No, there's nothing on conference papers in the guidance. I can check with them to see how they want it. In any case, I think the conference name and date needs to appear, but it doesn't for me currently.)
1 I'm still finding that the title is missing in documents:
Current output: Bowen, T. (2006), accessed 26 January 2022. https://www.onestopenglish.com/methodology-the-world-of-elt/teaching-approaches-the-grammar-translation-method/146493.article.
Wanted output: Bowen, T. (2006) Teaching approaches: the grammar-translation method, accessed 26 January 2022. https://www.onestopenglish.com/methodology-the-world-of-elt/teaching-approaches-the-grammar-translation-method/146493.article.
2 Also noticed that editor is not in brackets in edited collections, and ed rather than ed. is used, as well as eds. rather than eds:
Current output: Smith, R. ed. (2005) Teaching English as a foreign language, 1936-1961: Foundations of ELT. Abingdon: Routledge.
Wanted output: Smith, R. (ed) (2005) Teaching English as a foreign language, 1936-1961: Foundations of ELT. Abingdon: Routledge.
and
Current output: Richards, J.C. and Schmidt, R.W. eds. (2007) Longman dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics. (3rd edn). Harlow: Longman.
Wanted output: Richards, J.C. and Schmidt, R.W. (eds) (2007) Longman dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics. (3rd edn). Harlow: Longman.
(This is only in a bibliography entry for the whole book. When the entry is for a book section, the formatting is fine. Apologies for not noticing this one before.)
Style now available from the repository: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=multilingual-matters
1 Zotero item type: 'Document'
Current output: Crystal, D. (2017), accessed 8 June 2019. http://www.davidcrystal.com/?fileid=.5247
Wanted output: Crystal, D. (2017). English grammar in the UK: a political history (Supplementary material to Making Sense: the Glamorous Story of English Grammar), accessed 8 June 2019. http://www.davidcrystal.com/?fileid=.5247
Also, the conference details in the 'Conference paper' item type are missing.
2 Zotero item type: 'Conference paper'
Current output: Gabrielatos, C. (2003) Conditional sentences: ELT typology and corpus evidence, http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/140.
Wanted output: Gabrielatos, C. (2003) Conditional sentences: ELT typology and corpus evidence. 36th Annual BAAL Meeting. 4 September 2003. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/140.
Is it possible for this to be fixed? Thank you in advance.