I am attempting to formulate my bibliography in Zotero to meet the requirements of my faculty's library. It is a Vancouver style with the following format:
Citation: (number)
Reference Authors (Surname, Initial). Title. Abbreviated journal name. numeric year;Volume number(issue number):pages [Accessed: numeric day.month.year] DOI or URL.
I am having difficulty with producing the year issued and having the date accessed be in the day.month.year format.
I am also unable to have the URL display only if the DOI is not present.
I tried to add the following:
<date variable=”issued”>
<date-part name="day"/>
<date-part name="month" form="numeric" strip-periods="true"/>
<date-part name="year"/>
with the plan of adding accessed but I keep returning an error
Thank you for any help.
For year issued:
<date variable="issued" form="numeric" date-part="year"/>
For date accessed, your code snippet has two issues: you're using curly quotes and you're missing the final tag. Corrected you'd have
<date variable="accessed">
<date-part name="day" suffix="."/>
<date-part name="month" form="numeric" suffix="."/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
Finally, for the DOI/URL logic, you'd want something like
<choose>
<if variable="DOI">
<text variable="DOI" prefix="https://doi.org/"/>
</if>
<else if variable="URL">
<group delimiter=": " prefix="[" suffix="]">
<text term="accessed" text-case="capitalize-first"/>
<date variable="accessed">
<date-part name="day" suffix="."/>
<date-part name="month" form="numeric" suffix="."/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</group>
<text variable="URL" prefix=" "/>
</else-if>
</choose>
(FWIW, you're likely to get help faster for CSL on the Zotero forums)