Re: [Bibdesk-users] custom template: full stops and et al.

[Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...>]

On Jun 24, 2010, at 22:02, Jonathan Jackson wrote:

> 
> Dear List,
> 
> I'm new to BibDesk and looking to modify an existing template (the AMA template from CiteInPages) to match the Vancouver style as the two are very close. However I can't find a way to have a single full stop at the end of the author list when using et al.
> 
> @componentsJoinedByCommaAndAmpersandWithEtAlAfterSix
> 
> 
> The template looks like this:
> <$authors.unpunctuatedAbbreviatedNormalizedName.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByRemovingCurlyBraces@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAmpersandWithEtAlAfterSix/>. <$fields.Title.string...
> 
> For a single author the ouput is
> Author A.  Title  <etc>
> 
> and for multiple authors
> Author A, <etc> Author F, et al.. Title <etc>
> 
> The two full stops look odd and don't match the style
> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
> 
> any thoughts appreciated,
> Jon
> 
>  

The only way I can think of is using condition tags, conditional on authors.@count. You could enclose the period inside such a condition tag, i.e. replace the period by <authors.@count<7?>.</authors.@count?>

Christiaan