Newbie question #2: IEEE bibliographic style

TwoWheeler
Here's my second newbie question. I am working on a document with the IEEE with URL bibliographic style. The citations in the bibliography include the date from the "Accessed" field for articles that were obtained from the web. Is there a way to suppress this field without resorting to editing the style?
  • damnation
    No, not without modifying the style.
  • TwoWheeler
    I have found my way to view the IEEE style in the Visual CSL editor. I want to suppress the "Accessed" field from appearing in the bibliography when a patent is cited, e.g., in the attached screenshot, I want to remove "Accessed: April 27, 2019. [Online]."

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14029088/tp50qxy8mxch1q6g5frz.png

    Is it as simple a matter as clicking on each term, pressing delete, and then installing the edited style?
  • adamsmith
    It's not always that easy, but I think in this case it might work exactly like that, yes. You'll see in the preview (because other things will look wrong) if it doesn't.
    You'll want to change the title of the style (the editor will the prompt you to change the ID and filename as you save it)
  • TwoWheeler
    Thanks for this information.

    As you said, the editor prompts me to change the title when I try to save. Just to confirm, this is simply a matter of changing the text in the "TITLE" field in "STYLE INFO"? Also wanted to be sure that I am creating something that will exist only locally on my computer rather than something that will be on the web.
  • adamsmith
    Yes and yes. (To be a bit technical: I think you will see that custom style next time you open the CSL editor website, but it'll be loaded from your local browser cache, not the web. The CSL Editor is a static site, e.g. it doesn't even have a server it could upload styles to.)
  • TwoWheeler
    Worked like a charm. Thanks!
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