Style Request: Molecular Ecology

wade · March 16, 2010

Hi all,

I would like to request a citation style that is currently not available. Molecular Ecology has, what I think, is a quite unique citation style. The journal states that it uses the Harvard style guides, but the citations don't seem to follow exactly. The closest approximation is British Ecological Society Journals in the styles repository

The differences are

1) No periods after author initials.

This seems relatively minor and maybe I can fix it, but I am not sure how to do it in the style sheet. If you need more information, I can include it from the journal. Don't reference Molecular Ecology's website, the style isn't correct.

They also provide a link to an Endnote style, http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp

Thanks for any help.

Wade

anders_royce · March 16, 2010

If that one thing is the only difference, it seems like it would be fairly simple to make the change yourself. See the following link, and the thread below specifically discusses the syntax used for initials.
csl_simple_edits [Zotero Documentation]
Zotero Forums - Will Zotero automatically put periods on initials if the style requires it?

wade · March 16, 2010

Thanks for the advice.

I have edited a citation style to do basically what I want, but am having one issue. I don't want an ampersand in my bibliography between the second to last and last authors' names, but I do want one in the citation reference in the text.

When I edit in the Zotero test pane everything looks okay, but in my Word document the ampersand persists in both the text citation and the bibliography. Anyone know why this would be happening?

Wade