Hello,

I'm looking for a certain style for my dissertation but I was not able to find the needed one in the repository or any forum discussion. However, the desired one is pretty close to the style called "Annals of Botany".
So if anyone can help me on the following issues, I would really appreciate that!

What's different?

1st: Citation-part:

Perfect like that: "(Hartmann et al. 1999)". The only problem is that Zotero changes the "et al." automatically into "u. a." once I've pasted the citation into Word - maybe it is because I'm using a German version of Zotero? Anyhow, this change isn't supposed to be conducted for my needs and thus "et al." should remain there just as given in the example above...

2nd: Bibliography:

a) Concerning the Bibliography itself:

All references should be arranged alphabetically - might be that it is already the case in the above mentioned style "Annals of Botany".

b) Concerning Journals:

1st row:
Name: all author-names related to the article should also be mentioned in the bibliography as well. Exactly the formatting as it is used in the style "Annals of Botany" (bold, ...).
Year: after the full stop (of the last author-name) and a space in between, the year should be set in brackets and not being written in bold (in contrast to the style "Annals of Botany")
All author names and the year are supposed to be in the first row with no further punctuation behind the bracket of the year, e.g.: "Kötter P, Kiriacy M. (1999)"

The 2nd row should be made up of the article-headline with the formatting used in "Annals of Botany", ending with a full-stop.

The 3rd and last row should consist of the journal name followed by the journal-issue and the page numbers of the article, comparable with the style called "Bioelctromagnetics": the journal name, which should be written in italics, is supposed to be abbreviated following the international standards/rules for abbreviating journal-names. Except of putting a full stop behind every single abbreviated word (as in "Bioelctromagnetics"), the only full stop inserted should be behind the last abbreviated word. In addition, every abbreviated word should begin with a capital letter. In case the journal-name consists of only one name, no abbreviation has to be accomplished, still being followed by a full-stop. Journal-volume and page-numbers are neither written in italics nor in bold. Volume and page-number are not separated by a space, but by a “:”.
Examples for 3rd row:
"Chest. 25:245-251." or
"Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 38:776-783."
(Compare with "Bioelctromagnetics"!)

c) Concerning a section of a book:

1st row: Name(s) of author(s) of the section, followed by the year of publication of the book. Formatted as described in “b) Concerning Journals – 1st row”

2nd row: Section headline. Formatted as described in “b) Concerning Journals – 2nd row”

3rd row: "In: [all editors' names (formatted the same way as the authors' names in ‘b) Concerning Journals – 1st row’, except that the whole 3rd row is not written in bold)] (eds.)"

4th row: It consists of several data: starting with the full title of the book written in italics, ending with a full stop. After a space the volume number (if existing at all) follows, neither in italics nor bond, but abbreviated: "Vol. 1." Then another space follows the full stop to introduce the number of the edition next: "5th ed." Then space again followed by the name of the publishing company: "Thieme," After another space the place(s)/city(cities) of publication follow(s): "New York, Stuttgart" A comma and a space separate the place from the page numbers in the book: "pp. 776-783".
Example of the 4th row:
"How to refer to references. Vol. 1. 5th ed. Thieme, New York, Stuttgart, pp. 776-783."
The whole 4th row is written regularly except the book title, which is written in italics.

d) Concerning books:

1st row: all editors' names (no regulation in number), formatted the same way as the authors' names in the first row of “b) Concerning Journals – 1st row” plus “(eds.)” after a space behind the last editor’s name and after that with another space the year in brackets.
Example: "Kötter P, Kiriacy M. (eds.) (1999)"

2nd row: should be made up of the book title with the formatting used in “b) Concerning Journals – 2nd row”, ending with a full-stop, but written in italics!

3rd row: compare to 4th row of “c) Concerning a section of a book”, leaving the title of the book.
Example of the 3rd row:
"Vol. 1. 5th ed. Thieme, New York, Stuttgart, pp. 776-783."

e) Concerning websites:

1st row:
Name: all author-names related to the article should also be mentioned in the bibliography as well. Exactly the formatting as it is used in “b) Concerning Journals – 1st row”

2nd row: should be made up of the article-headline with the formatting used in “b) Concerning Journals – 2nd row”, except that in front of the full stop “[Internet]” should be inserted, separated by a space. Example: “References from the global network [Internet]. [Cited: 18.09.2010]”

3rd row: should consist of the name of the website written in italics and also ending with a full stop. After a space it should be mentioned the date of the last update of the document, if available.
Example: “Bibliographic issues. [Last update: 22.08.2009]”

4th row: “Available from: http://www.bib-iss./references/globalnetwork.htm”
No hyperlink. Full address written down as seen in address-bar.

I hope that this information altogether is detailed enough. Please let me know, if this is not the case.

Again, to anybody who is willing to help me on this issue and is able to create this style: thank you very much!!!

Hopefully hear from you…