SAA December 2023 update

Lscottsouthres · October 9, 2024

Hello,

I was hoping someone could help me with updating the SAA citation style to reflect the December 2023 update. The style guide has drastically changed formatting guidelines, and I have very little skill in changing code. Does anyone have advice or a timeline on updating the code to reflect the new style? I have been manually making the adjustments, but with hundreds of citations, it is becoming very difficult and time consuming to do so when I have the Zotero plugins enabled.

I have attached the new guidelines here:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-publications/style-guide/saa-style-guide_english_updated_2021_final08023c15928949dabd02faafb269fb1c.pdf?sfvrsn=c1f41c1b_2

damnation · October 9, 2024

I'm currently working with the publishers on a new style.
First draft was delivered and it's being reviewed now.

Lscottsouthres · October 9, 2024

Thank you for working on this! I know us archaeologists really appreciate it!

damnation · October 23, 2024

The new style just got signed off. You can already try it ahead of its release: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/d102a54cd1f05a50bdbc087be4cbcef31bb02cda/society-for-american-archaeology.csl

mismith35 · November 20, 2024

Thank you so much for the updated csl!

This could be an issue with my computer/programs, but I installed the new style and it looks perfect in the Zotero code editor preview, but the bibliography in Word still comes in as double-spaced with no hanging indent. The code looks fine, any ideas?

damnation · November 20, 2024

Section 3.12 References Cited, page 32:

The reference section begins a new page, under the primary heading References Cited, and must be double-spaced throughout.

Indentation:
Their guidelines clearly show that they want a hanging indent. Note also that this style was signed off by SAA themselves:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u452233/fsaxr4xo0ng9r541jpp5.png

mismith35 · November 20, 2024

Yes, that's what it looks like it should be doing (and how it shows up in the preview), but in my document it comes in looking like this:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u9823714/qfhb4n7b2onvv5fi82x4.png

So it may just be my computer being unruly... but in case others were having the same issue, I wanted to bring it to your attention.

damnation · November 20, 2024

Ok.
Switch style and back to SAA. That should reset the styling.

mismith35 · November 20, 2024

That did it! Thank you again!