Create vegetation-ecology-and-diversity.csl by LucianoDeBenedictis · Pull Request #8155 · citation-style-language/styles

LucianoDeBenedictis · 2026-04-21T09:20:18Z

CSL Styles Pull Request Template

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I have made a CSL for the journal "Vegetation Ecology and Diversity".

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Check that you've added a link to the style you used as a template in the <info> block at the beginning of the file with rel="template".
Check that you've added a link to the style guidelines with rel="documentation".
Check that you've added yourself as the <author> of the style or <contributor> for a style update.
Check that you've used the correct terms or labels instead of hardcoding into affixes (e.g., <text variable="page" prefix="pp. "/>).
Check that you've not used <text value="... if not absolutely necessary.
Check that you've not changed line 1 of the style.

github-actions · 2026-04-21T09:22:01Z

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github-actions · 2026-04-21T09:24:27Z

😟 There are some issues with your submission.

2 tests failed

The CSL Style Repository may not contain any (non-excepted) duplicate ISSNs

expected: {}
     got: {"3033-1447"=>["vegetation-ecology-and-diversity", "vegetation-ecology-and-diversity"]}

(compared using ==)

Diff:
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+"3033-1447" => ["vegetation-ecology-and-diversity", "vegetation-ecology-and-diversity"],

vegetation-ecology-and-diversity: "template" link must point to an existing independent style

expected "https://www.zotero.org/styles/pensoft-journals" to match /^http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/styles\//
Diff:
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/^http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/styles\//
+"https://www.zotero.org/styles/pensoft-journals"

Please check the test report for details.

github-actions · 2026-04-21T09:58:46Z

😟 There are some issues with your submission.

1 test failed

vegetation-ecology-and-diversity: "template" link must point to an existing independent style

expected "https://www.zotero.org/styles/pensoft-journals" to match /^http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/styles\//
Diff:
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/^http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/styles\//
+"https://www.zotero.org/styles/pensoft-journals"

Please check the test report for details.

LucianoDeBenedictis · 2026-04-21T10:03:57Z

Sorry, but this error message is a bit terse, and it seems just a matter of escaping characters. https://www.zotero.org/styles/pensoft-journals exists and is linked in the same form by other CSL of other journals.

POBrien333 · 2026-04-22T16:28:09Z

you made it into "https"

github-actions · 2026-04-23T07:34:07Z

😃 Your submission passed all our automated tests.

Below are some sample citations generated based on your proposed changes:

vegetation-ecology-and-diversity.csl (new)

(Anon 2012, Fenner … 2019)
(Hancké … 2007, Galindo-Castañeda … 2025)
(Mares 2001)

Anon (2012) CSL search by example. Citation style editor. Available from: https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ (December 15, 2012).
Fenner M, Crosas M, Grethe JS, Kennedy D, Hermjakob H, … Clark T (2019) A data citation roadmap for scholarly data repositories. Scientific Data 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0031-8
Galindo-Castañeda T, Kost E, Giuliano E, Conz RF, Six J, Hartmann M (2025) Locating the microbes along the maize root system under nitrogen limitation: a root phenotypic approach. Schneider HM, Vetterlein D (Eds). Annals of Botany 136: 1143–1162. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf185
Hancké B, Rhodes M, Thatcher M (Eds) (2007) Beyond varieties of capitalism: conflict, contradictions, and complementarities in the European economy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 438 pp. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206483.001.0001
Mares I (2001) Firms and the welfare state: when, why, and how does social policy matter to employers? In: Hall PA, Soskice D (Eds), Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 184–212. https://doi.org/10.1093/0199247757.003.0005

LucianoDeBenedictis · 2026-04-23T07:39:05Z

you made it into "https"

Well, that fixed it, thanks. Seems restrictive, since https is allowed for the documentation field, but I guess it doesn't matter, since most modern browsers should convert it to https.

Let me fix the inline citations: "..." should be used in the references but not in the citations instead of "et al."

github-actions · 2026-04-23T08:44:02Z

😃 Your submission passed all our automated tests.

Below are some sample citations generated based on your proposed changes:

vegetation-ecology-and-diversity.csl (new)

(Anon 2012, Fenner et al. 2019)
(Hancké et al. 2007, Galindo-Castañeda et al. 2025)
(Mares 2001)

Anon (2012) CSL search by example. Citation style editor. Available from: https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ (December 15, 2012).
Fenner M, Crosas M, Grethe JS, Kennedy D, Hermjakob H, … Clark T (2019) A data citation roadmap for scholarly data repositories. Scientific Data 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0031-8
Galindo-Castañeda T, Kost E, Giuliano E, Conz RF, Six J, Hartmann M (2025) Locating the microbes along the maize root system under nitrogen limitation: a root phenotypic approach. Schneider HM, Vetterlein D (Eds). Annals of Botany 136: 1143–1162. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf185
Hancké B, Rhodes M, Thatcher M (Eds) (2007) Beyond varieties of capitalism: conflict, contradictions, and complementarities in the European economy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 438 pp. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206483.001.0001
Mares I (2001) Firms and the welfare state: when, why, and how does social policy matter to employers? In: Hall PA, Soskice D (Eds), Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 184–212. https://doi.org/10.1093/0199247757.003.0005

LucianoDeBenedictis · 2026-04-23T08:52:04Z

There. I ended up using the default behaviour of the "and others" term, which seems to correctly render as ellipses in all editors I have tried (Zotero, visual CSL editor, the bot here). It doesn't seem like the terms specification is flexible enough to define something custom more explicitly (to ensure that it always gets rendered as "...") so this will have to do.

POBrien333 · 2026-04-23T11:16:14Z

+      <name>Luciano Ludovico Maria De Benedictis</name>
+      <email>luciano.debenedictis@unicam.it</email>
+    </author>
+    <contributor>


I assume these are remnants from the template style. Remove if so

I am the author. I reported the authors of the template style as contributors. Is this correct?

As I say, if they're from the template, remove them.

ok, I will remove contributors and leave what's before, because those other things are updated. I appreciate your assistance, if you want to be listed as contributor or acknowledged in some other way let me know under which credentials.

POBrien333 · 2026-04-23T11:16:52Z

+      <if type="legal_case" match="none">
+        <choose>
+          <if variable="DOI">
+            <group delimiter=" ">


THis group does nothing. remove

For this and the following: these are all present in the template Pensoft style, to which I made minimal edits, mostly to correctly use "..." for more than 6 authors in the bibliography. I will trust you and remove these lines if unnecessary, but then that should be done for the Pensoft style as well (which most journals of the publisher point to). I am not affiliated with the publisher so I won't correct that style myself, focusing only on this one.

Right, but we'd want this fixed.
In the future somebody will use this style as a template and then we need to fix it in that one.

I also don't know how old that style is, but we've gotten a bit more stringent with style quality.

Right, agreed. Maybe this could become the template for the updated version of that style! I will do what I can.

POBrien333 · 2026-04-23T11:17:11Z

+          </if>
+          <else-if variable="URL">
+            <group delimiter=" " suffix=".">
+              <text variable="URL" prefix="Available from: "/>


Replace such hardcoded text elements with the appropriate term

I'm not sure what to replace them with. Do you have any pointers? The CSL 1.0.2 Specification shows a similar hardcoded solution befor the URL, just within a group.

No, it doesn't show that. It uses a term

ok. The closest terms are either "available at" or "retrieved". Should I use either of those, possibly with the appropriate suffix, in another <text> before the URL line inside the group, even if it might result in a slightly different wording?

POBrien333 · 2026-04-23T11:18:35Z

+      </date>
+      <choose>
+        <if type="book" match="any">
+          <text macro="legal_case"/>


What does this do?

I don't know any better than you do. Should I just remove this "legal_case" line?

POBrien333 · 2026-04-23T11:19:09Z

+          </group>
+          <group prefix=" " suffix="." delimiter=", ">
+            <text macro="publisher"/>
+            <text variable="number-of-pages" prefix=" " suffix=" pp"/>


replace the hardcoded text with the appropriate label. Check the rest of your style for such issues.

I think in this case it should be something like <text variable="number-of-pages" prefix=" form="short"/> leaving the default plural="contextual". Not sure if prefix is necessary. I will do the same at line 228. Anything else of this sort?

github-actions · 2026-04-23T12:42:23Z

😃 Your submission passed all our automated tests.

Below are some sample citations generated based on your proposed changes:

vegetation-ecology-and-diversity.csl (new)

(Anon 2012, Fenner et al. 2019)
(Hancké et al. 2007, Galindo-Castañeda et al. 2025)
(Mares 2001)

Anon (2012) CSL search by example. Citation style editor. Available from: https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ (December 15, 2012).
Fenner M, Crosas M, Grethe JS, Kennedy D, Hermjakob H, … Clark T (2019) A data citation roadmap for scholarly data repositories. Scientific Data 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0031-8
Galindo-Castañeda T, Kost E, Giuliano E, Conz RF, Six J, Hartmann M (2025) Locating the microbes along the maize root system under nitrogen limitation: a root phenotypic approach. Schneider HM, Vetterlein D (Eds). Annals of Botany 136: 1143–1162. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf185
Hancké B, Rhodes M, Thatcher M (Eds) (2007) Beyond varieties of capitalism: conflict, contradictions, and complementarities in the European economy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 438 pp. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206483.001.0001
Mares I (2001) Firms and the welfare state: when, why, and how does social policy matter to employers? In: Hall PA, Soskice D (Eds), Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 184–212. https://doi.org/10.1093/0199247757.003.0005

LucianoDeBenedictis · 2026-04-24T10:14:47Z

+            <text variable="collection-title" suffix="."/>
+            <group suffix=".">
+              <text macro="publisher"/>
+              <group delimiter=" " prefix=", " suffix=".">


this group is single element, but has some additional variables. move them to the text block?

LucianoDeBenedictis · 2026-04-24T10:17:52Z

+          <group prefix=" " suffix=".">
+            <text variable="container-title"/>
+            <group prefix=" ">
+              <text variable="volume"/>


move prefix inside <text> and remove group?

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