Style Creation Tips

Contents

CiteSmart Helper

CiteSmart User Guide

Installation

Your First Steps With CiteSmart

Web Content Integration

Menu Guide

CiteSmart Components

Overview

CiteSmart Toolbar

Labeling Tree

Fold Panel

Library Content

Preview Panel

Tutorial & Technical Articles

Working Efficiently

Automatic PDF downloads

Drag and Drop

CiteClick & RefClick: the breakthrough

CiteSmart Add-in for Word 2007

CiteSmart Word Toolbar

Import a Library (i.e. From EndNote)

Export a library

Using Bibliographic Styles

Labels: Organize your libraries

Merging Libraries and Labels

Edit Citations

Journal Names

Style Creation Tips

Disabling Track Changes

Style Creation: Tips

CiteSmart comes with several utilities to make your work easier when creating a style. Here are some tips to keep in mind to fully exploit the style creation utilities.

1- Before creating a style, make sure to know if the style is numbered or uses a Harvard Template (Albert et al., 1953)

2- Go to CiteSmart menu Toolbox>Journal Styles> New Style>[Numbered/Harvard]. (Read more about how to create a style.)

3- Go through the style wizard till the last page is reached ( the bibliographic index template). Using the last page of the wizard, create the template only for the publication type 'ARTICLE' and press 'Finish'. The style will later be modified and the template implemented for relevant publication type.

4- To name the style, use the Medline Abbreviation of the journal name (Read more about journal name formatting). This is the standard implemented in CiteSmart and this is useful whenever the style is to retrieved using the CiteSmart search functions.

Note: once the style is saved, it also becomes the current style (style in use). Now it is possible to modify each section of the style (corresponding to each page of the wizard). To do so, go the menu Toolbox>Journal Styles> Modify Style>[style section]. Read more about style sections.

5- Now it is time to modify the bibliographic template for each publication type. For most of the journals, the publication type for which a style has to be implemented are: ARTICLES, INPRESS (articles in press), BOOKS, INBOOK (Book section or chapter), SUPPLEMENT (Articles published in supplement). Usually these publications should be easily accessible and editors usually recommend to avoid citing other types of publication like MASTERTHESIS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS and others (all available in CiteSmart).

Some publication types are very close in the bibliographic template they will have. For example ARTICLES and INPRESS will have the same template except for the pages and volume fields that will be replaced in INPRESS by the mention 'in press' for instance. Similarly for BOOK and INBOOK, their template will be very close. INBOOK will usually have an additional 'Title' field and the text 'in:'.

A function has been implemented to copy the bibliographic index from a publication type to another. To use it: go to menu Toolbox>Journal Styles> Modify Style>Change the Bibliographic Index. At the bottom of the page there is a button called 'Copy Settings From:'. This will copy the bibliographic index from a publication type 2 (here ARTICLE, see picture below) to the current publication type 1 (INPRESS, see picture below).

With this 'Copy Settings From:', there is no need to redefine the bibliographic index for each type. Choose the most similar, copy the settings and then modify the template.