small changes to American Medical Association csl needed

silentium
Hello everybody,

for writing my thesis I need a special citation style. It's like American Medical Association, just a little different. I guess I'm too stupid to get this working by myself so I thought I'll ask here.

The AMA style uses numbers like footnotes for citations. The numbers (and hence the bibliography) are sorted by occurrence in the paper. So what I cite first will be first in my bibliography.
What I need to have is an alphabetical sorting by author. So the author alphabetically first in my bibliography gets a "1", no matter where he is cited or who is cited first.

Can anybody give me a hint what to change in the AMA csl? Is there a reasonable CSL editor out there that I missed?
Simply changing <sort> <key macro="author" /> </sort> in ama.csl did not work ...

Thanks in advance!

CU
Silentium
  • silentium
    Ha! Found it! I accidentally changed the "sort" preferences for citations, instead of "bibliography". After adding a "sort" tag to <bibliography>, it finally works!

    Sorry to bother you ....
  • Timanoi
    I would need the citation style "American Medical Association (sorted alphabetically)" with the additional feature, that ALL authors will be listed (that means: no "et al").
    Can someone help me, please?
  • adamsmith
    what is this for?
  • Timanoi
    I need this for my thesis. My somehow "crazy" university requires to list ALL authors - even if they are 100 - who published the papers/books/articles. It's stupid, but it is required and I cannot change it. :-(
  • adamsmith
    General instructions here, make sure to read this first.
    https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

    The only thing you need to do is change
    et-al-min="7" to some arbitrary high number like et-al-min="1000"

    follow the instructions to change filename, id, and title and you're good to go.
  • Timanoi
    That worked perfectly!
    Thank you so much for your fast help!!!

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