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• Thanks. It is great to get a definitive answer, even if it is 'can't'! I've spoken to the editor, and the reasons are as follows: In a citation like your second example: (Wu 2008, 2009; Smith 2010, Jones 2011) the comma is doing 2 different thin…

  in Complex reference ordering rules Comment by dgoose November 24, 2020
• Sorry, Adam and bwiernik, I am not being clear enough. I really appreciate your engaging with this. I am also working with the style custodians to see if we can simplify some of their requirements. If I have a citation like this: (Wu 2008, Wu 200…

  in Complex reference ordering rules Comment by dgoose November 24, 2020
• Thanks for that, and for responding so quickly! I have done some tests. So, without your suggestion but with delimiter set to semicolon in cs:layout element I get semicolons between all entries, but commas within collapsed ones (version 1): (Jo…

  in Complex reference ordering rules Comment by dgoose November 24, 2020
• Thanks, that helped a lot. If I understand correctly, I think this does some of it, once the count macro is defined as given: First line sorts by 1st author only, second line by number of authors but only uses first 3 so cannot give values hi…

  in Complex reference ordering rules Comment by dgoose November 24, 2020
• THanks, I will dig into that and see if I can make sense of it.

  in Complex reference ordering rules Comment by dgoose November 23, 2020
• Thanks. I may give that a go. Very useful forum. Thanks again.

  in year-suffix-delimiter cannot be empty (?) Comment by dgoose November 22, 2020
• There are so many possible cases and combinations, it's no wonder a few edge cases get through. For now it means some tests and development will have to take place in the desktop app. Thanks.

  in year-suffix-delimiter cannot be empty (?) Comment by dgoose November 20, 2020
• I tried putting it direct into the code editor (which is what I mostly use) -- nothing works! I can put say DDD as in: year-suffix-delimiter="DDD" And it still has no effect. No ampersands at all. The DDD shows up in desktop app, so I suspect a bu…

  in year-suffix-delimiter cannot be empty (?) Comment by dgoose November 20, 2020
• Thanks for that, and thanks for such a quick reply. I eventually managed to do that myself; I decided to use the zero width non joiner to avoid linebreaking -- maybe the style already does that? I don't know that yet. The workaround, which is fine b…

  in year-suffix-delimiter cannot be empty (?) Comment by dgoose November 20, 2020
• To explain a bit more -- I have done some experimenting... I can get it to work in Zotero desktop by doing this in the citation definition: year-suffix-delimiter="‌" (that is, HTML for a zero-width non-joiner). I find that if I put in …

  in year-suffix-delimiter cannot be empty (?) Comment by dgoose November 20, 2020
• Hi, thanks for checking this out so quickly. I am developing a new citation style, based on the Australian Manual of Style (https://www.sciencestyle.com.au/). I have based the style file on WHO Regional Office for Europe -- Harvard, and ... (goes aw…

  in year-suffix-delimiter cannot be empty (?) Comment by dgoose November 20, 2020
• I third Hannah's comment.

  in Author abbreviation Comment by dgoose November 18, 2020
• Wondering if this has been resolved. We need a format like (WWF 2020) as the citation and in the ref list: WWF (Word Wildlife Fund) (2020). Name of document etc .... I have been hunting around the website/forum and I cannot seem to see a solution …

  in institutional author abbreviation or short form Comment by dgoose November 18, 2020