Upgrade StorageCorrection request - Journal of General Virology
I found several errors in the Journal of General Virology style. The reference site for the journal is below:
http://vir.sgmjournals.org/misc/ifora.shtml#references
- in text there can be maximum of 2 authors per reference (ex. Barnes & Nobles, 2002). Three or more should be referenced as (Barnes et al., 2002) with "et al." italicized. The example in zotero with 4 authors in text is absolutely incorrect.
- in multiple references in text the order should be either alphabetical or chronological (but consistent). Currently it seems that the order in zotero is alphabetical but it doesn't seem reliable seeing as too many authors get listed in the in text citations
- when the reference is used multiple times throughout the manuscript, sometimes zotero will start adding the authors FIRST name to the in text citation, ex. (Lu et al., 1995; Min, S. Li, Sen, & Robert M Krug, 2007; S. Li, Min, Robert M Krug, & Sen, 2006). This is absolutely incorrect for this Journal.
If possible, I would greatly appreciate this corrected soon. My manuscript is due tomorrow and I would hate to have to do it by hand or transfer all references to another program (would be an amazing waste of time :)
THANK YOU!!!
http://vir.sgmjournals.org/misc/ifora.shtml#references
- in text there can be maximum of 2 authors per reference (ex. Barnes & Nobles, 2002). Three or more should be referenced as (Barnes et al., 2002) with "et al." italicized. The example in zotero with 4 authors in text is absolutely incorrect.
- in multiple references in text the order should be either alphabetical or chronological (but consistent). Currently it seems that the order in zotero is alphabetical but it doesn't seem reliable seeing as too many authors get listed in the in text citations
- when the reference is used multiple times throughout the manuscript, sometimes zotero will start adding the authors FIRST name to the in text citation, ex. (Lu et al., 1995; Min, S. Li, Sen, & Robert M Krug, 2007; S. Li, Min, Robert M Krug, & Sen, 2006). This is absolutely incorrect for this Journal.
If possible, I would greatly appreciate this corrected soon. My manuscript is due tomorrow and I would hate to have to do it by hand or transfer all references to another program (would be an amazing waste of time :)
THANK YOU!!!
1) change
the et al option in the citation section to
<option name="et-al-min" value="3"/>
see
http://www.zotero.org/support/csl_simple_edits
for instructions
2) I thought the style does this correctly, look at the <sort> part of the citation section to check.
3) http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation
Re. 3) - I don't know how this is relevant in this case (but maybe I'm confused). Zotero should use last names ONLY in the in text citations, regardless of given name disambiguation. What difference does it make if the database has "R.M. Krug", "RM Krug", or "Robert M. Krug", if all that should be displayed is "Krug"?
My guess would be that the style would require you to add initials for these authors.
That's the general idea here. Zotero is a bit more rigorous about this than many styles want and improvements are forthcoming
If that's not the case or you don't want this at work, take out
<option name="disambiguate-add-givenname" value="true"/>
from the bibliography section.
However, the Bibliography is a complete mess! Instead of:
Hannoun, C., Norder, H. & Lindh, M. (2000). An aberrant genotype revealed in recombinant hepatitis B virus strains from Vietnam. J Gen Virol 81, 2267–2272.
Zotero spits out something like this:
Hannoun, C., Norder, H., & Lindh, M. (2000). An aberrant genotype revealed in recombinant hepatitis B virus strains from Vietnam 81, 2267-2272.
Notice the lack of Journal name, which should be before the issue and italicized.
Also very often it ads sth like this at the end:
doi: 10.1038/nature06042.
Which should not be there!
Everything seems to be wrong with this style... Can anyone help with the Bibliography?
I'm not sure if it's important for the styles to work correctly in zotero, but this one is still a complete mess. I had to manually switch to endnote before submission to get the bibliography and references correct (correct order of authors and italicized et al. in text, correct bibliography format and order), but I still have several draft manuscripts with zotero annotations that I would hate to have to manually convert to endnote as well.
It would be so nice if someone looked into this. Oh, and thank you Adam for all your help so far.