Training Video:Citation Styles

Introduction

Citation styles control how EPrints displays the details of items to users. There are separate styles depending on whether vistors are looking at an individual item or a list of items e.g. the results of a search.

What You Will Learn

• What a citation file does
• What a citation file looks like and how it is constructed
• How to modify a citation file to display new information
• How to include one citation file within another
• Conditional elements in a citation file

What You Should Already Know

• How to change EPrints configuration files
• Basic understanding of XML

Resources

Video

The Video can be found at http://youtu.be/MywQE6o6Za4.

Index

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 00:12 - what is a citation style?
• 00:37 - How is a citation generated?
• 01:00 - looking at citation template files
• 01:22 - default citation file
• 02:00 - breaking down the citation construction
• 02:30 - describing <choose> tags
• 02:50 - conditional <if> tag
• 02:55 - <print> tag with options
• 03:14 - creating links in citation
• 03:48 - magicstop option
• 04:08 - options based on document types
• 05:11 - Looking at summary page citation style
• 05:50 - incorporating default citation style in summary page
• 06:25 - Modifying the summary page citation style
• 08:00 - looking at result citation style

Notes, Errata and Additional Information

• EPrints 3.3.14
• Ubuntu 15.04

Test Yourself

You will need an administrator account on an EPrints repository to do these exercises. http://demoprints.eprints.org/ may be a useful resource, but your own sandbox repository may be better.

• Modify the default citation style to include the text 'We present for your consideration:' at the start of the citation.
• Make sure the title doesn't show for items of type 'article'
• Render the contents of the abstract at the end of the default citation style, in red text.
• Modify the abstract page to include the text 'Click on an icon below to download a document' just above the documents if there are any.