Style Request: Thieme-English

I am trying to submit to the International Journal of Sports Medicine (IJSM). They provide an Endnote Citation Style (.ens) to download at https://www.thieme.de/de/international-journal-sports-medicine/authors-id9884.htm. However, I'm looking to get this as a .csl because I'm using Zotero while writing this manuscript in Quarto with RStudio. It appears that Quarto requires .csl rather than .ens citation files.

There is a Thieme-German (Deutsch) in the Zotero Style Repository. Perhaps My request for Thieme-English could be considered a "Dependent Style"?

Journal Information from the NLM: ISSN:0172-4622 (Print) ; 1439-3964 (Electronic) ; 0172-4622 (Linking).

In-text citation:
[3]
[6, 7]
[1–3]
[5, 6, 9, 10]

Bibliography:
Paterno MV, Thomas S, VanEtten KT, Schmitt LC. Confidence, ability to meet return to sport criteria, and second ACL injury risk associations after ACL-reconstruction. J Orthop Res 2022; 40: 182–190. DOI: 10.1002/jor.25071

Free article to reference: https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-2316-7966
  • When requesting styles there a specific request format. Styles are coded by volunteers and to facilitate (and partially automate) their work it is necessary for you to provide examples using the exact publications they request:

    https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/REQUESTING.md
  • damnation, I checked the link you sent and it's unfortunately that style appears out of date. The rendered output doesn't match the recently published citation style. Nevertheless, it's a good lesson to search the repository by journal name, too.

    However, I did end up figuring this out. To the best of my knowledge, the Thieme-German (Deutsch) available on the Zotero style repository (https://www.zotero.org/styles/thieme-german) is the same thing as Thieme-English. In fact, someone from the journal even told me to use Thieme-German.

    In case it helps anyone else, the Thieme-German (Deutsch) .csl file found in the Zotero style repository cannot provide abbreviated journal names by default when using Quarto to render your document. That was one reason I was originally interested in asking for a .csl for Thieme-English. I solved the abbreviation issue by downloading the NCBI journal abbreviations JSON file at https://github.com/citation-style-language/abbreviations/blob/master/ncbi/json/ncbi-abbreviations.json. In my YAML file I referenced this JSON file with the citation-abbreviations argument.

    Finally, I found that I also needed to manually add some journal names and abbreviations key-value pairs to the JSON file. For example, my .bib file referred to some journal names with an ampersand (&) while the JSON file referred to those same journals using the word "and". For example, Medicine & Science in Sport & Exercise did not initially abbreviate because the JSON file documented this journal name as Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise. I also had similar issues with the word "The" in the journal name. I manually added lines to the JSON file as needed, and now I get abbreviated journal names as expected.
  • If you tell us what's wrong, we can fix it. But without knowing it's hard for us. We maintain more than 10,000 styles. ;)
  • I guess what I mean is that I recently learned the International Journal of Sports Medicine (IJSM) available in the repository csl is out of date. However, the Thieme-German (Deutsch) csl is up to date and is the current preferred citation style by the ISJM. It also happens that Thieme-English is equivalent to Thieme-German (Deutsch), at least as far as I can tell. Given that, I don't think there's anything that needs fixing. If something is still unclear, please let me know.
  • Hello,

    Just for you know that Thieme-German doesn't work (I have used the repository version, and downloaded from the Thieme website as well, tried on both Windows and Mac).
    It threw me an error: "Zotero experienced an error while updating your document"

    But I will try to use IJSM plugin as suggested for now. But just for you know so that it can be fixed for other people:)

    Thank you! Zotero is amazing!
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