After collapse delimiter - Inline citation options in mendeley visual CSL editor?

Question

I would like to add some specific after-collapse-delimiters in the mendeley visual CSL editor.

In the "Advanced" - "Global Formatting Options" under "Inline Citations" i enabled "Year-suffix-delimiter", "after-collapse-delimiter" and "cite-group-delimiter".

This leaves me with the following inline citations:

(Falco 1970, 1991, Manate 1976, 2003)

(Franto 1990; Franto et al. 1994, 2016, Franto and Ranga 2006, 2009, 2012a, b, 2014)

(Falco 1970, 1991, Manate 1976, 2003; Franto 1990)

However, what I don't quite get is that the delimiter changes between ; and ,.

I would like to have it formatted like the following:

(Falco 1970, 1991; Manate 1976, 2003)

(Franto 1990; Franto et al. 1994, 2016; Franto and Ranga 2006, 2009, 2012a, b, 2014)

(Falco 1970, 1991; Manate 1976, 2003; Franto 1990)

Any suggestions on how I could achieve this?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This is a little hard to say without the whole style, but a couple of things to note:

1. Since the cite-group-delimiter defaults to ", " anyway and you don't actually need a different delimiter after collapse then regularly between citations (see (Franto 1990; example), so don't need after-collapse-delimiter at all, all you need to set is delimiter="; " under "Inline Citation" > Layout and you'll get exactly the behavior you want. See e.g. the APA style.

2. Finally, especially if you're using the editor on Mendeley, I don't think they update the processor frequently (compare to editor.citationstyles.org which was updated about a month ago) so it's possible you're experiencing a bug with the citation processor that has since been fixed.