Help with updating a citation style

annabel_mc · December 1, 2023

Hello, I have been asked to update the "edition" field in this citation style https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/harvard-limerick.csl, currently it is showing as...

<macro name="edition">
    <group delimiter=" ">
      <choose>
        <if is-numeric="edition">
          <number variable="edition" form="ordinal"/>
        </if>
        <else>
          <text variable="edition" suffix="."/>
        </else>
      </choose>
      <text value="ed"/>
    </group>
</macro>

However this generates citations which look like this , the edition is appearing twice as edition and ed.

Curran, T. (Thomas A. and Ladd, A. (1999) SAP Business Blueprint : Understanding Enterprise Supply Chain Management, Second edition. ed, Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall PTR.

I need it to look like this...

Curran, T. A. and Ladd, A. (1999) SAP Business Blueprint : Understanding Enterprise Supply Chain Management, 2nd ed., Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall PTR.

However I am unsure how to edit the script to reflect the edition in the latter citation, I know I then have to submit this github for approval.

Apologies I know this is probably a very basic question but I am lost.
Thanks
Anne

adamsmith · December 1, 2023

Mainly this is a data entry issue: the item has "Second edition" instead of "2" in the edition field. With "2", you'd get "2nd ed" already.

You could consider a more commonly used edition macro that looks like this:

        <choose>
          <if is-numeric="edition">
            <group delimiter=" ">
              <number variable="edition" form="ordinal"/>
              <text term="edition" form="short"/>
            </group>
          </if>
          <else>
            <text variable="edition"/>
          </else>
        </choose>

That would leave the content of the field alone if it's not entered as a number (so you'd just get "Second edition" in the above example).

annabel_mc · December 1, 2023

Thank you for this, I never thought of that if the word second is in the catalogue record rather than the numeric value 2 obviously it would use the word second, sorry I never considered that, I got so lost in trying to figure out how to update the script

EngineerMama · December 1, 2023

Is there a macro that would translate the data from "second edition" to "2nd ed." if it was entered non-numerically?

adamsmith · December 1, 2023

No