Style request: The EMBO Journal
Hi,
I'd like to make a request for the EMBO Journal citytion style. There is a style with that name in the Zotero Style Repository, but the style file seems to be empty and if I install it nevertheless, it is incorrect (i.e. the style is not the one used in the EMBO Journal). As far as I can tell, the Repository entry is just a placeholder.
Does anybody know what would be the most closely related style that is already available?
Thanks!
Matt
I'd like to make a request for the EMBO Journal citytion style. There is a style with that name in the Zotero Style Repository, but the style file seems to be empty and if I install it nevertheless, it is incorrect (i.e. the style is not the one used in the EMBO Journal). As far as I can tell, the Repository entry is just a placeholder.
Does anybody know what would be the most closely related style that is already available?
Thanks!
Matt
http://www.zotero.org/support/requesting_styles
Here's the "guide for authors": http://www.nature.com/emboj/about/authors.html
I'll try to find a simila style that's already available, but it would be great if the style could eventually be added!
The closest style I could find is Cell Journal. Here's a list of examples for comparison and a list of all diferences that I could find. Since the authors guides don't specify web site citations, and I couldn't find them in the journals, I don't know how they should look like - no change from Cell is probably the safest bet for now.
Author's Guides:
Cell: http://www.cell.com/authors#gen_specs
EMBO: http://www.nature.com/emboj/about/authors.html#a3.8
Style used in EMBO:
Reference in text:
(Author, Year)
(Author & Author, Year)
or, if more than two authors:
(Author et al, Year)
[no dot after “et al”!]
For multiple citations at once:
(Ferrier & Lunkes, 2003; Wiersdorff et al, 2000)
Style for reference list:
- No numbering
- in alphabetical order, then chronologically
- with the authors' surnames and initials inverted
- et al only for more than 20 authors
- Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c after the year of publication
- The name of each journal should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus and italicized
Article in a periodical:
Cell:
Sondheimer, N., and Lindquist, S. (2000). Rnq1: an epigenetic modifier of protein function in yeast. Mol. Cell 5, 163–172.
EMBO:
Akhmedkhanov A, Toniolo P, Zeleniuch-Jacquotte A, Koenig KL, Shore RE (2002) Aspirin and lung cancer in women. Br J Cancer 87: 49-53
Differences:
- Remove all dots, leave only the one after the title
- Add colon after volume
- Set title in italic
- Set volume in bold
Article in a book:
Cell:
King, S.M. (2003). Dynein motors: Structure, mechanochemistry and regulation. In Molecular Motors, M. Schliwa, ed. (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH), pp. 45–78.
EMBO:
Sambrook J, Fritsch E & Maniatis T (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbour Press, Cold Spring Harbour, New York, USA
Differences:
- As with journal articles: no dots except after title
- Sequence of items after title (separated by commata as shown):
[Publisher], [Place], [Country]
I say pretty much because their citation guide is a total mess, so I had to use some guesswork about what they want - but everything they're consistent about is now correct.
I had a look at the code, I guess the problem is that the group ":" is not affected by the font style/weight of the preceeding "volume" element. I pasted the affected part of the style code below (from the bibliography section), I guess you'll know the best way to get that colon to be bold.
<group class="container" delimiter=": " prefix=" " suffix="">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text variable="container-title" form="short" font-style="italic"/>
<text variable="volume" font-weight="bold"/>
</group>
When there are two different authors with the same surname (but different initials) and the publication is from the same year, it gives the names of the first two authors and no alphabetized year.
e.g.: (Wang, Brown, et al, 2004) and (Wang, Wang, et al, 2004).
The correct (EMBO) way would be (Wang et al, 2004a) and (Wang et al, 2004b), even though it is not the same person
I'm really being a nag, but I found another difference with published EMBO articles...
"et al" should be in italics. I know that this is not mentioned in the guidelines of the EMBO journal, but if I look at any of their publications, it always is.
Thanks a lot!