I am currently trying to create a citation style for IBIS in the CSE in Mendeley. I was initially surprised and mortified that no such style should be for the biggest ornithological journal in Europe. I have succesfully used a similar template "Ecology" and changed some formatting, but two things I still struggle with to make it completely accurate are:
1. Journal abbreviations: The IBIS journal wants journal abbreviations, and I assume these would be appropriate with the abbreviation list. Is there currently no way of linking a correct list of journal abbreviations with a citation style, or does this have to be done locally? I also need help with setting this up, as I don't understand the guide that has been given on how to make the abbreviations occur in the a bibliography in MS word for example.
2. et al needs to be in italics in the inline citation, and I can't seem to do this without making all the author names into italics too. I have a suspicion I need to get into the code behind it, to perhaps change this, but please advice on this. I have also tried downloading citation styles where the et al should already be in italics, but those have not worked appropriately either.
And thirdly, assuming I will eventually crack this one, is there no way of making the citation style publicly available? I don't mean the private sharing of the weblink, but putting it into the Citation style repository?
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