I know absolutely nothing about how to create or edit styles (no idea at all!)

But you do know the style & can use your time to make it easier for those that are less familiar with your particular style, but are able to quickly modify CSL files.

You could either:

• contact unique317 to obtain the latest version of the style he was building
• decide if American Journal of Physical Anthropology or Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press or some other style is most similar to the style you want

You can then enumerate specific modifications that need to be made to a particular style to get it to output what you want.

Hello,
I have managed to tweak the existing CSH Press style to look similar to Oncogene but now I cannot validate it. Can somebody tell me what is wrong in it and how to do it?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" xml:lang="en" class="in-text" >
<info>
<title>Oncogene(dev)</title>
<id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/cshlp</id>;
<link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/cshlp"/>
<author>
<name>Julian Onions</name>
<email>julian.onions@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<contributor>
<name>Richard Karnesky</name>
<email>karnesky+zotero@gmail.com</email>
<uri>http://arc.nucapt.northwestern.edu/Richard_Karnesky</uri>;
</contributor>
<contributor>
<name>Indranil Paul</name>
<email>indranil.res@gmail.com</email>
</contributor>
<category term="biology"/>
<category term="author-date"/>
<updated>2010-09-24T02:21:30+00:00</updated>
<summary>A style for all journals by CSHLP</summary>
<rights>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</rights>;
</info>
<macro name="editor">
<names variable="editor">
<label form="short" text-case="lowercase" suffix=". " />
<name and="text" delimiter=", " initialize-with="." text-case="capitalize-first"/>
</names>
</macro>
<macro name="series-editor">
<names variable="original-author">
<label form="short" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=". "/>
<name and="text" delimiter=", "/>
</names>
</macro>
<macro name="author">
<names variable="author">
<name and="text" name-as-sort-order="all" sort-separator=", " delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="always" initialize-with="."/>
<label form="short" prefix=", " suffix="." text-case="lowercase"/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
<names variable="translator"/>
</substitute>
</names>
</macro>
<macro name="author-short">
<names variable="author">
<name form="short" and="text" delimiter=", "/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
<names variable="translator"/>
</substitute>
</names>
</macro>
<macro name="access">
<group>
<text variable="URL"/>
<group prefix=" (" suffix=")">
<text term="accessed" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=" "/>
<date variable="accessed">
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="day" suffix=", "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</group>
</group>
</macro>
<macro name="title">
<choose>
<if type="thesis">
<text variable="title"/>
</if>
<else-if type="book">
<text variable="title" font-style="italic"/>
</else-if>
<else>
<text variable="title"/>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>
<macro name="publisher">
<group delimiter=", " >
<text variable="publisher"/>
<text variable="publisher-place"/>
</group>
</macro>
<macro name="year-date">
<date variable="issued">
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</macro>
<macro name="day-month">
<date variable="issued">
<date-part name="month"/>
<date-part name="day" prefix=" "/>
</date>
</macro>
<macro name="page">
<label variable="page" suffix=". " form="short"/>
<text variable="page"/>
</macro>
<macro name="edition">
<choose>
<if is-numeric="edition">
<group delimiter=" ">
<number variable="edition" form="ordinal"/>
<text term="edition" form="short" suffix="."/>
</group>
</if>
<else>
<text variable="edition" suffix="."/>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>
<citation>
<option name="et-al-min" value="1"/>
<option name="et-al-use-first" value="1"/>
<option name="et-al-subsequent-min" value="3"/>
<option name="et-al-subsequent-use-first" value="1"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-year-suffix" value="true"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-names" value="true"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-givenname" value="true"/>
<option name="collapse" value="year"/>
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="year-date"/>
</group>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>
</layout>
</citation>
<bibliography>
<option name="hanging-indent" value="false"/>
<option name="et-al-min" value="6"/>
<option name="et-al-use-first" value="6"/>
<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<key variable="title"/>
</sort>
<layout suffix=".">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="author" suffix="."/>
<text macro="year-date" prefix="(" suffix=")."/>
</group>
<choose>
<if type="article-newspaper article-magazine" match="any">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="title" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
</group>
<group prefix=" " delimiter=", ">
<text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>
<text macro="day-month"/>
<text variable="edition"/>
</group>
</if>
<else-if type="thesis">
<text macro="title" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
<group prefix=" " delimiter=", ">
<text macro="edition"/>
<text macro="editor" suffix="."/>
<text variable="genre"/>
<text macro="publisher"/>
</group>
</else-if>
<else-if type="book">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="title" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
<text macro="edition"/>
<text macro="editor" suffix="."/>
<text macro="publisher"/>
</group>
</else-if>
<else-if type="chapter">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text macro="title" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
<group class="container" delimiter=", ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<text term="in" text-case="capitalize-first"/>
<text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>
<text macro="editor" prefix=" (" suffix=")"/>
</group>
<group delimiter=" ">
<text variable="volume" prefix="Vol. " suffix=" of"/>
<text variable="collection-title" font-style="italic"/>
<text macro="series-editor"/>
</group>
<text macro="page"/>
<text macro="publisher" prefix=" "/>
</group>
</group>
</else-if>
<else>
<group suffix="." >
<text macro="title" prefix=" " />
<text macro="editor" prefix=" "/>
</group>
<group class="container" prefix=" " suffix="." delimiter=" ">
<text variable="container-title" form="short" font-style="italic"/>
<group delimiter=": ">
<text variable="volume" font-weight="bold"/>
<text variable="page"/>
</group>
</group>
</else>
</choose>
<text prefix=" " macro="access" suffix="."/>
</layout>
</bibliography>
</style>
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Thanks.

Hello adamsmith,
I uploaded my file (in .txt) in Validator.nu and got an 'error'. Can you please tell me how to do it step by step? What are Preset, Parser, etc., etc. options?

OR if you can spare some of your time then I can send this file to you? I have uploaded it.
http://gist.github.com/594955

Hello,
One last problem! I have saved it as a .csl file and it looks like this "Oncogene.csl". But after opening it into a firefox window the page is displayed but nothing is happening. I suppose some kind of "Install" option will appear but I cannot see anything except just the displayed page.
Thank you very much for all your patient and kind help. And how to make it available to all so that everybody can use it?

Hello adamsmith,
I got it! Actually my file was like "Oncogene.csl.txt" .txt being hidden. The trick was to simply delete .txt part. Thank you for your help. It is amazing that so many knowledgeable guys are out there ready to help you waiting for just your asking. Its excellent. Thanks again.

Hi,
Yes sure. But there are still two caveats:
1. All the "et al" in citations and bibliography should be in italics which I couldn't make.
2. In bibliographies (not citations) the style puts a "comma" after the "last author" and before the "et al" (as shown below) which should not be there. I am unable to do it after so many tries.

Welcker M, Orian A, Jin J, Grim JA, Harper JW, Eisenman RN, et al. (2004). The Fbw7 tumor suppressor regulates glycogen synthase kinase 3 phosphorylation-dependent c-Myc protein degradation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101: 9085 -9090.

The style would be perfect with these two rectified.

You can find the style at http://gist.github.com/594955

Hi,
In that case the style for Oncogene at the address given above should be final from my side and can be submitted to the repository as adamsmith suggested.
Thank you all for your excellent suggestions.