Create transactions-of-the-philological-society.csl

[Alexei-Kassian]

Style for the Wiley journal 'Transactions of the Philological Society' (TPhS)

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transactions-of-the-philological-society: name nodes must have valid et-al-min and et-al-use-first attributes

expected et-al-min (6) to be greater than et-al-use-first (6)

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[POBrien333]

Have a look at our [https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/STYLE_REQUIREMENTS.md#csl-style-repository-requirements](style requirements).
Can you add the template style use used into the info section? (point 8)
You could also add a title-short with TPhS just below the title if you wanted. (see point 1)

The style is not validating as you have an error with your et-al rules.
At first glance I cannot find that the bibliography needs et-al. What is the expected bevahiour? Then I can suggest the change.

[Alexei-Kassian]

My TPhS template was based on 'West European Politics' https://www.zotero.org/styles/west-european-politics.
I'm not a programmer, I'm trying to do my best.

1. 'et al' rules currently works fine. It's needed in bibliographic description if a publication has more than 5 co-authors. In such a case, only first 5 names are to be listed followed by 'et al.' E.g.:

Smith, Alex, Alex Jones, Alex Williams, Alex Taylor, Alex Brown, Alex Davies, 2025. 'Issues on ...'

Smith, Alex, Alex Jones, Alex Williams, Alex Taylor, Alex Brown et al., 2025. 'Issues on ...'

2. "et al." should not be in small caps (authors' surnames & names are in small caps). But I failed to override small caps for 'et al.'

3. The same problem with small caps. Some books have no authors, but only editors. E.g.:

Smith, Alex (ed.), 2025. English dictionary. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Currently "ed." is in small caps (as "Smith, Alex"), but it should not be.

[POBrien333]

Remove font-variant="normal" throughout your style unless it's be design (usually never is)

[Alexei-Kassian]

Done (I don't know how to upload a new version). It doesn't help, "ed." and "et al." remain in small caps.

[Alexei-Kassian]

I uploaded a new version.

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😟 There are some issues with your submission.

1 test failed

transactions-of-the-philological-society: name nodes must have valid et-al-min and et-al-use-first attributes

expected et-al-min (6) to be greater than et-al-use-first (6)

Please check the test report for details.