Need to update JMBA style

JonMagnusson · March 14, 2023

Hello all!

I'm about to send a paper for publication in JMBA. I have been using the style downloaded from Zotero, but as it was last updated in 2018 the official style has changed (see: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-marine-biological-association-of-the-united-kingdom/information/author-instructions/preparing-your-materials). I contacted the original creator but he is no longer involved in updating. Can anyone help me change the things that are needed? I believe it's very minor things (Initials are not separated by commas or periods in bibliography, bold number of the issue, things like that).

Thanks in advance!

damnation · March 14, 2023

I've fixed some issues, but there is probably some more.

https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/4c2d8177a6dabf28a0f282b2f0cb7f58e822d617/journal-of-the-marine-biological-association-of-the-united-kingdom.csl

JonMagnusson · March 15, 2023

@damnation thank you so much! That does fix some of the problems that I was having already. Can I ask how did you learn what to change in the citation style to do those changes? I went mad trying to figure it out.

Thanks again!

damnation · March 15, 2023

I've been making citation styles for over 10 years. I learned CSL since I needed a style for my university during my BSc. Trial and Error and using the CSL Specification. And back then there were no visual tools to test a style.
I made changes, saved the style, closed Mendeley, imported to Mendeley, reopen Mendeley, refresh document. Took me 6 months for my first style. Now it's easy. But I made some 700 styles or so. ;)

These are the most important resources for me
https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html
https://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor/ and https://editor.citationstyles.org/codeEditor/
https://validator.citationstyles.org/
https://aurimasv.github.io/z2csl/typeMap.xml

JonMagnusson · March 16, 2023

@damnation again, thank you so much for your help! It's my first time having to deal with all of this and I can't imagine doing it without these types of communities and helpful comments! Have a great day!