Style Request: Journal of Geography in Higher Education

This style is very similar to American Psychological Association 6th Ed.

1) In-line citations for works with multiple authors: the et al. should be italicized (plain text in APA)
2) In-line citations for multiple works: works should be orders chronologically, oldest to most recent (APA orders them alphabetically by first author).
3) Two differences in bibliography entry for a chapter in an edited volume, as follows:
APA style:
Smith, N. (1993). Homeless/global: scaling places. In J. Bird, B. Curtis, T. Putnam, G. Robertson, & L. Tickner (Eds.), Mapping the futures: Local cultures, global change (pp. 87-119). New York: Routledge.

Should be:
Smith, N. (1993). Homeless/global: scaling places, in: J. Bird, B. Curtis, T. Putnam, G. Robertson, & L. Tickner (Eds.), Mapping the futures: Local cultures, global change, pp. 87-119 (New York: Routledge).

Differences:
1) comma after chapter title, followed by "in:" followed by editor(s) and book title (APA: period after ch. title, followed by capitalized "In" with no punctuation after, then the editors and book title)
2) comma after book title, followed by page range, followed by pub. info in parentheses (APA: page range in parens., then period, then pub. info w/ no parens.

<note: the book title is italicized in both formats, I just don't know how to embed html codes into the comments here>

3) Biblio. entries should not have a hanging indent (APA does).

The journal's description of the style is here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0309-8265&linktype=44

Thanks for any help anyone can give - I'm XML / CSL illiterate!
  • Ok, now that I've finalized the manuscript I was working on I've noticed a couple other differences from APA in biblio. entries for journal articles and books:
    Articles:
    -should be a comma after the title (not a period)
    -volume # should not be italicized
    -should have "pp." before the page range
    Here's their example:

    Johnston, R. J. & Cooke, R U. (2001) Standing and delivering: views from the trenches, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 25(1), pp. 113-116.

    (journal title should be italicized, as w/ APA)

    For books, the publication info should follow the title (no punctuation), in parantheses, followed by a period, as in:
    Donald, S. G. & Kneale, P. E. (2001) Study Skills for Language students: A Practical Guide (London: Arnold).

    Thanks for any help anyone can give!
  • I figured out how to edit the .csl code, and I've got most of it done, with two glaring problems that I can't figure out how to fix:

    1) "et al." in parenthetical citations should be italicized, and I can't find anywhere to set that font style. Does .csl allow that to be changed?

    2) in parenthetical citations w/ multiple works, they should be in chronological order. I tried changing the <sort> string (taken straight from the APA style), but couldn't get anything to change, even by deleting the sort or trying to sort on weird fields.

    Any hints?
  • 1. not currently possible but will be in the future.
    2. hard to say what's going on without seeing the code. But in general that should work.
    you can post the code as a public gist at gist.github.com
  • Thanks, Adam. I've posted the code here:

    http://gist.github.com/558954

    Let me know if you can't access it.

    In this version I switched "issued-year" and "author" as sort terms, but the Zotero test pane shows no difference (I also tried just deleting the "author" sort, w/ the same lack of effect).

    Thanks for your help.
  • OK - I might be able to test this later, but first look I can't see anything wrong, this should work.
  • OK, sorry it's so late but the style is up on the repository now.
  • Thanks, Adam, looks good.

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