changing styles in zotero

BogdanCI
Dear community,

I'm new to editing CSL styles and I would kindly ask for your help with customizing a citation style using the Visual CSL Editor.

What I need:

1. Inline citation format
Desired format:
(Mares ș.a., 2011, p. 283)
or
[17, p. 283]

Please note:

Replace the standard "et al." with the Romanian equivalent "ș.a."

Locator should appear as "p. 283", not "pp. 283–295" or other variants

2. Bibliography format examples
I would like the bibliography entries to appear like these:

Books:
Mares, D., 2008 – Experimental Techniques, Alma Mater Publishing House, Bucharest.

Iliescu, Ana Felicia, 2003 – Landscape Architecture, Ceres Publishing House, Bucharest.

Published articles:
Voiculescu, A., 2008 – Simulation of Transport Processes of Antibiotics, Revista de Chimie, vol. 58, no. 6, p. 235–240.

Doluschitz, R., 2003 – Precision Agriculture – Applications, Economic Considerations, Experiences and Perspectives, available online at www.date.hu/efita/2003/centre/pdf/1001.pdf.

Additional notes:
The citation language should be Romanian (e.g., "p." for "page", "ș.a." for "et al.")

I am using Visual CSL Editor, but any help with the XML structure is also welcome if it's easier that way.

Thank you very much for your support!
  • adamsmith
    From our understanding (based on feedback from Romanian academics) neither of the two things you note are common practice in Romanian academic writing, so we use et al instead of ș.a. and pp. for plural page numbers in Romanian styles and . you'd have to override those in a local section in the style:
    https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#locale
    It'd sit right below the info section (you can also insert it using the visual editor) and look about like this:

    <locale xml:lang="ro">
    <terms>
    <term name="et-al">ș.a.</term>
    <term name="page" form="short">
    <single>p.</single>
    <multiple>p.</multiple>
    </term>
    </terms>
    </locale>

    You can look at some other styles like Vancouver or APA to see how/where to place the local section.
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