PLoS Medicine Error in Citation Style

yuyak
I'm not sure if the PLoS Medicine citation styles have changed recently, but the formatting used by Zotero appears to be incorrect.

In text, Zotero does [1] or [1, 2, 5, 7] or [1-5]. However, based on the PLoS website, it should be [1] or [1],[2],[5],[7] or [1]-[5] for those examples.

Thanks for any help.
  • adamsmith
    where do you get that from?
    I get this
    [1,4-6,22]
    as an example here:
    http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/guidelines.action#preparation
  • yuyak
    edited November 30, 2010
    I JUST saw that too and am a bit confused as to what the proper formatting is.

    I was looking at ALL the papers published in the most recent edition and they all have it in the [1] or [1],[2],[5],[7] or [1]-[5], etc format.
    http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000369#s1
    http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000368#s1
    http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000372#s2

    However, all the older articles are in the format you listed, what Zotero does, and what the page you linked to says.
  • adamsmith
    no - that's only true for the online version (which is to facilitate the hyperlinks). If you check the pdfs they only use one set of brackets per group (i.e. [16, 17] )
  • yuyak
    edited November 30, 2010
    ah my mistake. Sorry (and thanks!).

    However (maybe this is nitpicking) even in the pdf version when multiple non-contiguous sources are cited, they have [1,4-6,22] without spaces, whereas Zotero puts in spaces after the commas [1, 4-6, 22].
  • adamsmith
    OK fixed that - look for the changed date in the repository, then update by re-installing.
  • yuyak
    Thanks a bunch!

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