Make citation formats customisable
We would like to be able to customise the Harvard citation format to our house style, and to add custom citation formats to the list.
Lucy Clifford
shared this idea
Custom citations are now available in Summon as part of the August 2022 release.
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Jack Samson
commented
It would be great for this to be implemented. We also use an in-house version of Harvard (AGPS Harvard, more specifically). Summon does currently offer AGPS Harvard but the minor differences are sometimes enough to trip students up if they are copy and pasting the generated reference. Instead, we are recommending them to export the reference data to an external referencing software (EndNote, in our case) and generating the reference that way. It would be nice for the students to feel comfortable simply copy and pasting the reference if they prefer, whereas at the moment we have to add the caveat that while Summon will be 95% correct, they do always need to double check the minor details such as punctuation and capitalisation to make sure it is correct.
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Jonathan Eaton
commented
Strongly support this suggestion:
Same case as Lucy makes: to comply with Cite Them Right we also need a custom Harvard citation style - specifically, to format {Place of publication}: {Publisher} which is reversed in the supplied style :-(
Noted that ProQuest.com offers exactly this in its Cite > Harvard... with the option of a "Harvard - British Standard" format.
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Ian Jacklin
commented
Strongly support this ability to use citation styles that have been defined with the Citation Style Language (CSL) and stored in GitHub's CSL Style Repository too.
This feature is available in Primo - Why not in Summon?
We have our own citation style in the repository. It's frustrating to not be able to include it in Summon
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Anonymous
commented
Would also like to offer OSCOLA referencing format to our students as well as local standard for Harvard.
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Anonymous
commented
This would be extremely useful if reference styles could be customised.
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Lucy Clifford
commented
Alternatively, what we really want is for the Harvard citation format to match the Cite Them Right Harvard style. If a new CItation Format for Harvard (Cite Them Right) was added, each customer could choose to use the Harvard style that suited their own institution.