I made some changes to the oecologia style but only on my local copy. I don't know how to upload the changes

All the journals I listed share the same style. They are journals of the British Ecological Society

@amber: This is a known issue in the current sync preview. Save the style file with a ".csl" extension & drag it into Firefox. Here is the one style to use for all BES journals: http://www.zotero.org/styles/besj/dev

@asplundj: you can upload changes the same way you uploaded new files: 'svn commit' them. You can also create dependent styles for the journals you listed, so that amber & others can locate the style files more easily.

I was able to successfully install the Oecologia file as well.

@noksagt: I tried to make dependent styles but I don't think it worked
https://www.zotero.org/trac/timeline

asplundj: The build scripts just weren't working. Check the styles page now.

Also, don't delete a style just to update it—doing so prevents a proper diff, interrupts the file history, and takes up more space in the repository. Just update the file, use 'svn st' and 'svn diff' to review changes, and, if everything looks good, commit it.

Finally, the URI needs to be all lowercase. I fixed this once before ('Oecologia' -> 'oecologia'), and I've now done so again. Before making additional changes, you would need to do an 'svn update' in your working copy to get the latest version.

Thanks for your work on the styles.

A useful style but document type webpage is missing:

"Citations from the World Wide Web are allowed only when alternative hard literature sources do not exist for the cited information. Authors are asked to ensure that:
fully authenticated addresses are included in the reference list, along with titles, years and authors of the sources being cited"

thanks for reporting this - maybe asplundj can fix this, otherwise I'll do this at some point, but I've got a couple of things ahead of it.

There was a small error in the style.
For the title, the first letter of each word was in capital case (text-case=title). However it is necessary only for books. The titles of articles should not be with capital letters.

I have uploaded a corrected version of the style here:
https://gist.github.com/1102796

thanks for the upload.

Hello,

I'm trying to create a manuscript for the Journal of Applied Ecology and when reading the style guidelines as linked above I noticed a discrepancy between the style guidelines of the link (to Functional Ecology) and the style guidelines of the Journal of Applied Ecology, specifically in reference to the way each journal requires citations of 3 authors.

Functional Ecology requires reference all authors the first time, and then use et al. in subsequent citations

Journal of Applied Ecology requires reference of 1, 2, and 3 authors to always use all author names.

I was wondering if it were possible to request an update to the style code of the Journal of Applied Ecology to reflect this distinction?

Thanks in advance.

pff, what an unnecessary complication, but in any case the independent journal of applied ecology with different et al rules is now up.

try re-installing the style from the repository. Also, try switching to a different style and back. If that doesn't help come back here.

Many thanks for the Journal of Ecology style.

I have one request: would it be possible to make the "et al." appear in italics when a reference with more than three authors is cited within the text? Right now "et al." appears in normal font, but the Journal specifically asks for italics.

I have one paper accepted there and the editor is making me change manually every "et al." in the text to italics.

Many thanks,

Etienne

Thanks Adam. I am using the most recent version from the repository, but I still get "et al." in standard font, not italics.

I am using Zotero 2.1.10 and Word plugin 3.1.4.

I have also tried with OpenOffice plugin 3.5b2, and still get no italics.

Many thanks for your help,

Etienne

Ah, thanks, that's the problem. I was using the style "Journal of Ecology", and not the style "British Ecological Society Journals".

It's a bit confusing because there are individual styles for these journals:

Journal of Ecology
Functional Ecology
Journal of Animal Ecology
Journal of Applied Ecology

as well as a separate style for all of these journals, i.e. "British Ecological Society Journals".

If "British Ecological Society Journals" is the best/most up to date one, then what's the best strategy? When looking for the "Journal of Ecology" style, people will most likely go for "Journal of Ecology", and not "British Ecological Society Journals"...

Many thanks,

Etienne