Styles

CSL Development
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I notice the following styles in the XBib styles repository:

American Political Science Association
American Sociological Review
BlueBook Academic
BlueBook
Harvard
Nucleic Acids Research

What are the dispositions of these styles? Are any of them refined enough to warrant inclusion into Zotero? Which need more work done, and what must be done to complete them?

(Note that Zotero already has APA, MLA, and Chicago.)

Also, I collected the following list of styles. Some are broad-based, focusing on particular disciplines; and some are journal/institution-specific, most of which were solicited by users of Zotero. I think this is a good starting point to determine which styles should take precedence during initial CSL development:

Styles by Discipline

Anthropology
Chicago Manual of Style

Biology
Council of Biology Editors (CBE)
http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/cbegd.php

Chemistry
American Chemical Society (ACS)
http://pubs.acs.org/books/references.shtml

English
Modern Language Association (MLA)

Engineering
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~writing/handbook-docum1b.html
http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/find/citation/ieee.html

Geology
Chicago Manual of Style

Government
The Complete Guide to Citing Government Information Resources
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html

History
Chicago Manual of Style

Information Sciences and Computer Science
IEEE Computer Society Style Guide
http://www.computer.org/author/style/cs-style.htm

Journalism
Associated Press (AP) Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law
http://www.apstylebook.com/

Law and Legal Studies
The Bluebook : A Uniform System of Citation
http://www.legalbluebook.com/
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/

Linguistics
Linguistic Society of America, LSA Bulletin, December issue
http://www.lsadc.org/

Mathematics
American Mathematical Society (AMS). A Manual for Authors of Mathematical Papers


http://faculty.maryvillecollege.edu/library/styleguide/ams.htm

Management
American Management Association. The AMA Style Guide for Business Writing

Medicine
American Medical Association. AMA Manual of Style.
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/ama.html
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citama.htm

Physics
American Institute of Physics. Style Manual for Guidelines in the Preparation of Papers
http://www.aip.org/pubservs/style/4thed/toc.html

Psychology (and other social sciences)
American Psychological Association. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association


Political Science
American Political Science Association Committee on Publications. The Style Manual for Political Science.
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPSA.html

Sociology
American Sociological Association. ASA Style Guide.

Journal/Institution-Specific Styles

Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA)
http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/

IEEE
http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~writing/handbook-docum1b.htmlGerman

Archaeological Institute
http://www.dainst.org/medien/de/richtlinien_keyword%20list_english.html

Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/

Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/gta/index.html#a5.4

Journal of Molecular Biology
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622890/description

Molecular Microbiology
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0950-382X&site=1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
http://www.pnas.org/

American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Council of Science Editors (CSE)
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/publications/style.cfm

History and Theory
http://www.historyandtheory.org/
http://www.historyandtheory.org/stylesht.html

Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
http://www.sbl-site.org/
http://library.bethel.edu/class/tutorials/writ-cit/SBL_Citation.pdf

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Trends
http://www.trends.com/

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
http://jama.ama-assn.org/misc/ifora.dtl#References

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What are the dispositions of these styles? Are any of them refined
enough to warrant inclusion into Zotero? Which need more work done,
and what must be done to complete them?

The Bluebook ones need a fair bit of work.

AFAIK, the other ones ought to be in pretty good shape, though need
testing and possible tweaking. I’ve not really had time to work on this
stuff in the past few months.

It would be cool if we could have Simon’s simple little CSL web app
available for testing. Paste style in browser and see example results.
Simon: does that make sense? Would it be easy for you to do?

It might even be a way to allow users to help, particularly if it
include an RNG validation step at the end.

Also, I collected the following list of styles. Some are broad-based,
focusing on particular disciplines; and some are
journal/institution-specific, most of which were solicited by users of
Zotero. I think this is a good starting point to determine which
styles should take precedence during initial CSL development

Excellent.

Bruce

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It would be cool if we could have Simon’s simple little CSL web app
available for testing. Paste style in browser and see example
results.
Simon: does that make sense? Would it be easy for you to do?

I emphatically second Bruce’s request for a web application that formats example citations/bibliographies using user-submitted CSLs. Resetting Zotero’s SQLite every time I make changes to a style is, by far, the most time intensive part of testing. I would welcome such an application.

I assume we would need a vast dataset of bibliographic information to test the vagaries of a style. Does such a dataset exist? Could we simply use an avid Zotero user’s data?

-Jim