Problem with style adjustments

ruesselmann
Hi Everyone

I have the same Problems as descibed in: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5687/access-date-german-format-apa-style/

(Short Story: replace "retrieved" with german "abgerufen" in Web-references)

Now when I try to change the text term it just disappears in word/test pane
<if type="webpage">
<group>
<text term="retrieved" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=" "/>
<date variable="accessed" suffix=", ">
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="day" suffix=", "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
<group>
<text term="from" suffix=" "/>
<text variable="URL"/>
</group>
</group>
</if>
  • adamsmith
    I don't understand? That thread has a workable solution - is that not working for you? If so, why no?

    And I don't know what exactly you mean by "change the text term"
  • ruesselmann
    edited January 28, 2010
    I´ll try to explain it again from the beginning:

    The reason I want to do this, is I HAVE to use DGPs citation style (look here for similar topic) for my diploma-thesis, in which I have to use BOTH "et.al" (instead of german "u.a.") and german "retrieved from"( i.e. "abgerufen(DATE) von")

    I turned the language to english as described here but now not only the author abbrevations are "et.al". but also the webpage access description "retrieved (DATE) from" is in english which i tried to change manually in changing the text term from "retrieved" to "abgerufen".

    I guess the method isn´t right but I didn´t find a different solution.

    So there IS a difference between DGPs and APA and I´m stuck with adjusting the APA to it. Even if there isn´t a difference in style the language still is an issue
  • adamsmith
    ok, that's not the problem in the other thread.
    you can solve this by changing the terms in the style
    put
    <terms>
    <locale xml:lang="en">
    <term name="retrieved">abgerufen am</term>
    <term name="from">von</term>
    </locale>
    </terms>

    right after </info>

    and then changing the date section of the accessed macro as described in the first thread you link to.
    When you use the code I post above, you should remove the prefix="am" from the <date-part name="day"/> line

    Alternatively you can stay in German and switch the et al. to et al. in the terms section

    <terms>
    <locale xml:lang="de">
    <term name="et-al">et al.</term>
    </locale>
    </terms>
    (haven't tested this, but should work.
  • ruesselmann
    Thanks a lot, both methods working but the second is more comfortable, because i don´t have to change date format manually...
  • adamsmith
    What's DGP? Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie?
    Do you have a link to their style requirements?
    It might be worth posting that style -
    we can put both the English and the German term changes in the header, so it would work for people using either version of FF.
  • ruesselmann
    Yes, DGPs is Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGP without "s" actually is the abrevation of diverse medical associations). They have a publicated book in which they describe Guidelines for the design of written texts. (ISBN:3801720446)-Orig.: Richtlinien zur Manuskriptgestaltung.

    cnex posted an excel file as i posted in my upper comment (html was corrupted-now working). But i think because it is from a university seminar and not offical it has conflicting entries.

    DGPs has an endnote style I don´t know if one could convert it to zotero
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