Problem with the new Society for American Archaeology (SAA) style

TVM86 · 2025-02-04T21:38:39+00:00

Hello everyone!

I just noticed that the SAA style was updated yesterday—thank you so much for keeping it up to date! I really appreciate the effort that goes into maintaining it.

However, I noticed something curious: in the bibliography, the title seems to be appearing twice—once right after the authors and then again after the date. Is it possible that I’ve set something up incorrectly, or could it be a bug in the code?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you all for being part of such an amazing community.

Warmly,
Tatiana

damnation · 2025-02-04T21:53:22+00:00

The SAA style was developed by us together with the SAA folks and was signed off by them.
Can you give a concrete example and also show the input of the data in Zotero? Then I'll look tomorrow first thing.

Edit: Found my error. PR: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/7427

TVM86 · 2025-02-04T22:05:15+00:00

Hello :)

Thank you for your quick response!

Here’s the data I’ve entered into Zotero:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14552778/2aohv0zax6mty00s4dwl.png

And this is how it appears in Word:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14552778/rmgl8tafqm7lx4pdimv2.png

I really appreciate you taking the time to look into this issue!

Best regards,
Tatiana

blanning · 2025-02-04T23:34:51+00:00

I'm having the exact same problem. It's also including the DOI now. Is the new SAA style guidance to include the DOI, or is that an error?

blanning · 2025-02-04T23:34:51+00:00

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u9507450/n4urczvm9u8w5vgqu5bu.jpg
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u9507450/7yunq5f1cxrssm6kf01i.jpg
Here are images of a normal zotero input, and the output we just started getting. The duplicated title is underlined.

damnation · 2025-02-05T07:20:04+00:00

As I said above, I already provided a fix last night. Once it's merged it will be available.

The DOI was indeed introduced in this version of the guidelines.

blanning · 2025-02-05T14:18:45+00:00

I saw that. My apologies, by the time you had posted your comment I had already posted mine and they were awaiting approval from the mods, so there was nothing I could do to stop them being posted. I really appreciate the prompt attention and thanks so much for keeping the style up to date. I do see now where the DOIs are now required for online sources. I'll keep an eye out for the merge and thank you again!

damnation · 2025-02-05T14:59:53+00:00

The style was just merged, thanks to bwiernik!

TVM86 · 2025-02-05T16:10:16+00:00

Hello!

Thank you so much for your help—it's truly appreciated!

Is there anything specific I need to do to see the changes, or should I just wait for them to appear?

Best,
Tatiana

damnation · 2025-02-05T17:11:50+00:00

You can wait, yes, or just grab the style from here: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:society-for-american-archaeology

TVM86 · 2025-02-05T17:12:43+00:00

Thanks :)

blanning · 2025-02-06T17:46:43+00:00

As a follow up, there looks to be another bug with the in-text references. Now for multiple author resources it is including up to three names. So for a 3-author report, it is including all three names, and for references with more than three authors it is including three names and then "et al." I confirmed in the SAA style guide that three or more authors are supposed to appear as the first author's name followed by et al. An example of what is currently occurring is provided here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u9507450/ztopow0c0r6nq3x5m4qz.png
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u9507450/5ohmb51vejdab00vn7y2.png

damnation · 2025-02-07T09:47:31+00:00

Thanks.
I am not sure why I added that change to the new version and why it was caught during the review as I cannot find anything in my emails with SAA about it. The style had been signed off by them. PR is made:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/7431

TVM86 · 2025-02-14T23:14:42+00:00

Hi there!

I’ve been using the new SAA style and noticed that when there are multiple references from the same author, the author’s name isn’t being repeated. According to the SAA style guide:

"Two or more works by the same author or authors should be listed chronologically (repeating author name[s] for each entry)"

At the moment, it appears like this:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14552778/3q0as6tm2n8e1w6g7nk8.png

But based on the SAA style, it should look like this:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14552778/9lt8fbbjk86363s0tvca.png

Would someone be able to take a look at this? I’d really appreciate any help!

Thanks so much in advance!

Best,
Tatiana

damnation · 2025-02-15T10:32:40+00:00

Thanks for spotting the error.
Fixed: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/7438

TVM86 · 2025-02-18T16:56:24+00:00

Thank you so much!!!