CSL versions not up-to-date

brianChung11037 · November 1, 2022

I work for a government agency and we created our own citation style for our own purposes. I created a copy of our CSL file and edited this copy to incorporate a couple of changes requested by others within the agency. When I added this style onto Zotero to test, I notice that this message appeared:

"[My style file path] is not a valid CSL 1.0.2 style file, and may not work properly with Zotero."

How do I update the CSL version of this style file?

damnation · November 1, 2022

A: https://validator.citationstyles.org/ + https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html
B: Share your code via pastebin.com and we help you

adamsmith · November 1, 2022

1.0.2 is almost 100% backwards compatible: with *very* few exceptions, any valid 1.0.1 style validates for 1.0.2, so it's more likely the problem is with your changes. (There's no dedicated update protocol: the only things from 1.0.1 that don't validate in 1.0.2 is the term "sub verbo" (now "sub-verbo") and the use of field categories as terms ("text term="zoology", say, is no longer valid).
https://validator.citationstyles.org/ gives you more helpful feedback. If that doesn't help, you can post the style somewhere we can easily look at it (gist.github.com or pastebin.com or so) and we can take a look.

damnation · November 1, 2022

(classic double post by adamsmith and damnation. haha)

brianChung11037 · November 1, 2022

I checked https://validator.citationstyles.org/ and figured out why now. Thank you. There were a few errors (me adding my name as a second contributor in a single contributor element, having a delimiter in an else-if statement). I don't have the pop-up anymore after fixing these errors