Need help for editing (APA 7th) style

scyber · September 21, 2022

Hi,

i would like to edit the already existing APA 7th ed. style to cope with the editorial constraints of a journal (Constructivist Foundations), and i'm a bit lost in the CSL specifications.

I want to do three things:
1) Formatting the authors in bold in the bibliographical references.
2) Deleting the comma in textual citations between the author and the date, ie from "(author, date)" to "(author date)".
3) Deleting the ending online reference links of article in the bibliographical references ("https://doi.org/...")

Can someone help me ? Thanks in advance.

Regards.

damnation · September 21, 2022

1) set font-weight="bold" on names or name depending what you need

2) Under citation >> layout you'll see a group with delimiter=", " set. Remove that comma. (line 1741 on APA7)

3) That's a bit more involved. One easy way is just delete the DOI variable from the access macro.

If you get the style together we would be grateful if you submitted it to the repository for other academics to also use. Otherwise if you share your code I can do that for you (and maybe fix a few things also).
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

bwiernik · September 21, 2022

https://constructivist.info/guidelines/template.docx
https://www.fabricemetais.fr/aa/local/cache-zotspip/4LDBJYGK/Full Text PDF.pdf

The style given in the author guidelines and used in PDFs for the journal aren’t particularly close to APA 7—there are a lot of differences. It would be better to make a style specifically for the journal.

Can you please format the Mares and Campbell/Pedersen items listed here according to the journal style? https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/REQUESTING.md

I do see that many of the cited articles and chapters in both the guidelines and PDF include URLs. In general, I would strongly recommend including those to aid retrieval by the reader.

@damnation

scyber · September 24, 2022

@damnation My code for now is just the APA7 style with modified Title and Id. If it's not too much work for you, i do appreciate your offer to transform it. Otherwise, I will try to integrate your instructions by myself, and then of course share.

@bwiernik I do agree that keeping the URLs is better.

Thanks a lot for your quick and usefull expert answers.

Regards.

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damnation · September 24, 2022

As the style differs from APA we'd need you to follow the guide that bwiernik linked to.
That way I can find a better matching and high quality template style and work from there.

scyber · September 24, 2022

@damnation Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Journal: Constructivist Foundations (CF): https://constructivist.info/
ISSN: 1782-348X
Authors Guidelines: https://constructivist.info/guidelines/template.docx, p7

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

Bibliography:
**Campbell J. L. & Pedersen O. K. (2007)** The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success. Comparative Political Studies. 40(3): 307–332. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414006286542
**Mares I. (2001)** Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers? In: P. A. Hall & D. Soskice (ed.) Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage: 184–213. New York: Oxford University Press.
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1) With ** meaning bold.

2) If possible, the next lines after the first of each reference should be indented by 1 tabs (5 spaces).

Online exemple:
https://www.fabricemetais.fr/aa/local/cache-zotspip/4LDBJYGK/Full Text PDF.pdf

Is it ok for you ?

damnation · September 24, 2022

I've had a stab at the style.
Let me know if you find any errors.

https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/294812c1fee074dab4377322560845e4356bdbeb/constructivist-foundations.csl

scyber · September 25, 2022

@damnation Nice, it seems alright to me. Thanks again for your fast and precious help.

I will post here if i have futur editor's comment about it.

Have a nice day.

scyber · October 19, 2022

@damnation After using the style for some time, here's a first request for correction:

In Bibliography > With Item Type: Video Recording and Film, the Title is printed first (and only with date in Film).

To be consistent with the other (scientific) references and APA style, i think it should be:

1. the Director(s) for film followed by (Director), or Cast Member(s) for Video Recording
2. then Date (this is already ok)
3. then Title followed by "(Film)" for Films, and Title followed by "(Video)" for Videos
4. then Distributor for films, and Series Title for videos
5. then finally URL for videos (this is also already ok)

Thank you in advance for your time.

damnation · October 19, 2022

Where do you see this explained in the guidelines?

scyber · October 19, 2022

There is no references to film or video in the guidelines. It's based on my own need, and it's more and more common to have to cite such material.

damnation · October 19, 2022

In that case, I've coded it to be treated like books.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/13c69fb4ad68f78b1c362892760737560981d5fb/constructivist-foundations.csl

scyber · October 19, 2022

Ok. Thank you.

damnation · November 20, 2022

Style now available: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=constructivist-foundations

scyber · November 21, 2022

Thank you very much @damnation for your time and efforts, i do appreciate !

I haven't had yet the direct feed-back from the journal, and i will follow here if there's any.