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 · 2024-10-23T15:55:43+00:00

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 · 2024-11-20T02:12:45+00:00

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 · 2024-11-20T08:36:16+00:00

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 · 2024-11-20T15:33:22+00:00

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 · 2024-11-20T15:39:09+00:00

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

mismith35 · 2024-11-20T15:53:20+00:00

That did it! Thank you again!