On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Charles Parnot <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:36, Robert Knight <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for your work on this. I do wonder whether it makes sense to
> > have quite so many dependent styles in the repository though.
> > I have been wondering if it would make sense to 'push' users and
> > publications to use well known existing styles more.
>
> BMC is a great example of that: I was impressed all their journals follow
> the same guidelines. Unfortunately, no other publisher has such a
> systematically consistent format for references.
>
> As for the users: one Papers user asked for the style for Malaria Journal.
> Should I have told him to use 'BMC informatics'. And tell the same to every
> user that ask? I don't think we should put the burden of figuring out which
> style to use I the user. Their goal is to write a paper, not to spend time
> figuring out why a colon is used, instead of a period in the references. In
> fact, nobody should care about this, but publishers do, unfortunately, for
> some weird reasons. So it's not just a number battle with EndNote, it's a
> usability issue. It really makes the user's life better if the style for
> the journal they want is right there. I think.
I think per-journal styles make a lot of sense from a user-point-of-view.
It might make sense to automatically append the parent style to the style
title to indicate the dependency, e.g. "Malaria Journal (BioMed Central)",
but some CSL style titles are quite long as they are.
And yeah, a lot of sites that compare the different bibliographic reference
managers list the number of styles supported, so propping up the number
with dependent styles clearly helps with marketing CSL.
One thing where I think http://www.zotero.org/styles could do better is
highlighting a few high-quality styles, such as apa.csl . E.g. the old
repository had a separate section for "default styles" that shipped with
Zotero, which was handy when you weren't looking for a journal-specific
style.
Rintze
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