Pinpoint referencing - Oscola

[Fozzle7907]

Hello again,

I was wondering it was possible to do pinpoint referencing on Qiqqa using the Oscola referencing style? I am not sure if I have just missed the info on how to do this, or if the feature does not currently exist on Qiqqa.

Thanks

[GerHobbelt]

Quick copy&paste from the (now defunct) getsatisfaction qiqqa support forum (as kept in https://github.com/jimmejardine/qiqqa-open-source/tree/master/docs-src/getsatisfaction-mirror/____extracted for later processing cf. #218):

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Robin Callender Smith over 8 years ago

Is it possible to set OSCOLA as the citation style?

The Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) is a standard legal citation method....yet it does not seem to be available in Qiqqa.

One of the big advantages of Mendeley is that this citation method can be set as standard.

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EMPLOYEE

Qiqqa (Official Rep) over 8 years ago

You can download the OSCOLA style from the Zotero Style Repository. Save it to the same folder as the report you are writing (or somewhere safe).

Then in Qiqqa InCite, click the style name box, and browse to where you saved the OSCOLA .csl file.

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EMPLOYEE

Qiqqa (Official Rep) over 8 years ago

OSCOLA will be one of the standard styles shipped with Qiqqa for the next release this afternoon...

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Note

I haven't tested this nor used citations in ages so YMMV, but a quick search in the CSL directory shows the OSCOLA citation style is available as a definition, so it should work just like any other citation style that way. 🤔

[Fozzle7907]

@GerHobbelt Thanks for your quick response. I am able to find, select and implement the Oscola citation style, but it is not translating correctly into my word document when pressing the magic wand. There are a number of issues:

1. The title of an article should be in single 'quotation' marks, but mine are coming up with "double" quotations. (this is in the footnotes and bibliography)
2. When referencing a pre-existing reference it only references the name of the author/authors without referring to the previous note (in footnotes) as in blah and blah n 6.
3. I am unable to pinpoint my references
4. There is no option for legislation, so when putting in a legal Act in the 'title' box in Bibtex sniffer, the Act is cited with double quotation marks (and it shouldn't have anything). I have tried entering the title of the Act in various boxes under misc, but it is always referenced wrong.

I have been in contact with the CSL developers and they confirm the code is correct and that the above issues are Qiqqa related. I have tried downloading a new CSL file from the Zotero style repository, saving it and using that, but it does not change how the citations and bibliography are shown in my word document.

[GerHobbelt]

Could you please provide a sample bibtex record for a PDF you wish to reference and the corresponding expected reference output? That way, I'd be better able to test this and uncover any bugs in the citation process.

(It'll take a while as I haven't looked into it before; I know there's a MSWord plugin/addon sourcecode part in the Qiqqa tree and AFAICT there's a CSL-based citation formatting process via xulrunner+citation.js (or at least an older copy thereof IIRC)

Flagged as BUG now.

[Fozzle7907]

@GerHobbelt this is the BibTeX record as found in Qiqqa:

@comment { BIBTEX_AUTO - GS }
@Article{montalbano2020policy,
title={Policy entrepreneurship and the influence of the transnational financial industry in the EU reform of securitization},
author={Montalbano, Giuseppe},
journal={Business and Politics},
volume={22},
number={1},
pages={85--112},
year={2020},

Which should come out as such: Giuseppe Montalbano, 'Policy Entrepreneurship And The Influence Of The Transnational Financial Industry In The EU Reform Of Securitization' (2019) 22 Business and Politics 85.

If I was looking to pinpoint the reference with a specific page number then it would be as such: Giuseppe Montalbano, 'Policy Entrepreneurship And The Influence Of The Transnational Financial Industry In The EU Reform Of Securitization' (2019) 22 Business and Politics 85, 15. (where 15 is the page number)

If I cite the document again in my paper the new reference should be: Montalbano (n1) when n1 denotes the previous footnote number. (currently, I just get the surname) Again a pinpoint to that reference would be Montalbano (n1), 15.

With legislation the Bibtex record on Qiqqa is:
@misc{SOX2002
, title = {Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002}

Which should just show as Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002, but is currently showing as "Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002", again subsequent references should use the title of the act followed by the number of the first footnote as Sarbanes-Oxley Act (n2). (Whereas presently I just get Sarbanes-Oxley.

I am not sure if this helps. If not come back to me and I will try again.

It would be really useful if one could edit individual citations within Word and still have the amendment once the magic wand is clicked again, or if we could select whether we wanted a shortening of the citation in subsequent citations as some journals require the full citation every time, and others do not. Also, technically, when creating the bibliography in law subject the legislation and case law should be separate in a table of cases and a table of legislation. At the moment, I pull them out of the bibliography and create it on my own, but it would be nice if a program could do this automatically. (Sorry to add to your workload, but I figured that if you were delving into citation problems, then it is easier to make changes at the time, rather than having to go back to it later.)