Upgrade StorageStyle Request: [Public Health Nutrition]
I'm requesting a CSL style for Public Health Nutrition. Instructions to contributors are at http://assets.cambridge.org/PHN/PHN_ifc.pdf
I would sincerely appreciate help.
According to the instructions it's a Vancouver variant (though it has some AMA elements from what I can tell as well), with superscript citations in parenthesis, and there seems to be some sort of hyphenization in citations. In the bibliography/references, if there are more then 3 authors there is et al in italics. after the third, journal names are italicized, issue numbers are omitted if there is continuous pagination, year of publication in parenthesis are after authors/editors, no p. in front of pages in journals with continuous pagination, pp. added before page numbers for journals without continuous pagination and for books, and book and online report titles italicized.
I think that articles and reports available on the web say available at, whereas websites just give the url. Also books have either the city, city and state, city and district, or city and country. I'm not sure the rule, save that New York, Geneva and London don't have state, district or country whereas Copenhagen, Denmark, Washington DC and Champaign Illinois do.
That's just what I can tell, and I'm not totally sure that I've got it right even after spending a few hours. It's incredibly hard to figure out all the differences, and I don't feel I have the experience to notice everything, especially since I don't normally use Vancouver (what experience I have is with APA).
In addition to the instructions to contributors, there are free articles... at least one in every issue and more the farther back you go. I can't link directly, sadly, but issues are on http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=phn (you may have to scroll down a bit) and pdf's of the articles show citations and references which look like the examples in the instructions. You can also click free access or open access on the right side of the page, though that seems to include all the Cambridge journals so you have to select Public Health Nutrition.
I'll be looking through for rarer variations when I have time (multiple citations, bibliography entries without authors, websites, etc.) which I'll post when I can. If something specific would be good to find or often causes problems, let me know. I'm subscribing to this thread, and I'll try to be available at least once a day on weekdays to answer questions. If I notice more differences between Vancouver and Public Health Nutrition, I'll post them.
Thank you for your time and expertise.
I would sincerely appreciate help.
According to the instructions it's a Vancouver variant (though it has some AMA elements from what I can tell as well), with superscript citations in parenthesis, and there seems to be some sort of hyphenization in citations. In the bibliography/references, if there are more then 3 authors there is et al in italics. after the third, journal names are italicized, issue numbers are omitted if there is continuous pagination, year of publication in parenthesis are after authors/editors, no p. in front of pages in journals with continuous pagination, pp. added before page numbers for journals without continuous pagination and for books, and book and online report titles italicized.
I think that articles and reports available on the web say available at, whereas websites just give the url. Also books have either the city, city and state, city and district, or city and country. I'm not sure the rule, save that New York, Geneva and London don't have state, district or country whereas Copenhagen, Denmark, Washington DC and Champaign Illinois do.
That's just what I can tell, and I'm not totally sure that I've got it right even after spending a few hours. It's incredibly hard to figure out all the differences, and I don't feel I have the experience to notice everything, especially since I don't normally use Vancouver (what experience I have is with APA).
In addition to the instructions to contributors, there are free articles... at least one in every issue and more the farther back you go. I can't link directly, sadly, but issues are on http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=phn (you may have to scroll down a bit) and pdf's of the articles show citations and references which look like the examples in the instructions. You can also click free access or open access on the right side of the page, though that seems to include all the Cambridge journals so you have to select Public Health Nutrition.
I'll be looking through for rarer variations when I have time (multiple citations, bibliography entries without authors, websites, etc.) which I'll post when I can. If something specific would be good to find or often causes problems, let me know. I'm subscribing to this thread, and I'll try to be available at least once a day on weekdays to answer questions. If I notice more differences between Vancouver and Public Health Nutrition, I'll post them.
Thank you for your time and expertise.
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please report any problems:
Three issues are currently not possible:
1. Parentheses and superscript don't mix well in the CSL implementation - this may look a little funny. Please still let me know if this is the case, but I won't be able to do much about it.
2. Zotero can't distinguish between continuous and by-issue pagination. I've decided to ommitt all issues, as most relevant journals appear to have continuous pagination. Fortunately, you were wrong about the pp. - that's for edited volumes and never used in journal articles.
3. Zotero can't italicize et al., but that will be possible in the not-so distant future.
On 2, I can see how that would be a problem, unless there was some sort of database of which journals had which type of pagination. I'm not sure there is one existing database, but if that would work, even if it was a feature that would only be added sometime in the distant future, I'd be happy to record which journals I look at for this paper use which type of pagination.
In the mean time, for by issue pagination, if I could know the code to change to include issue numbers, I can create an alternative style in case there is a journal that needs it, and just switch outputs.
<else-if type="article-journal article-magazine" match="any">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text variable="container-title" form="short" font-style="italic"/>
<text variable="volume" font-weight="bold"/>
</group>
</else-if>
and change it to:
<else-if type="article-journal article-magazine" match="any">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text variable="container-title" form="short" font-style="italic"/>
<group>
<text variable="volume" font-weight="bold"/>
<text variable="issue" prefix="(" suffix=")"/>
</group>
</group>
</else-if>
This will put the issue in parentheses after the volume (that's what I gather they want - I couldn't find an example anywhere, so it's just a guess.)
But switching outputs is not really a solution: All of the citations will change. I'd recommend just adding it in by hand when you're done (this will break the connection between zotero and the entry, so really do this last thing before you send the article off and save that as a separate copy).
On web pages, the month and year don't have a space between them. for example, "(accessed January2010)." instead of "(accessed January 2010)."
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