New Hart's Rules

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new-harts-rules-the-oxford-style-guide.csl remains a rough approximation of the target style, specified in chapter 18 of New Hart’s Rules: The Oxford Style Guide, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2014). The current csl departs from specification in at least these details:

• Bibliography entries should be terminated with a full stop, as noted here.
• No em rules in bibliography entries: "In second and subsequent works by the same author do not replace the name with an em rule or rules: although this has been traditional print practice, it is not suitable for many types of electronic publication, so it is preferable to spell out the name in full for each entry" (18.1.3, p. 348).
• "When there are four or more authors, works in the humanities usually cite the first name followed by ‘and others’ or ‘et al.’" but "In some scientific journals [...] the policy can be to cite up to six authors before reducing the list to a single name and ‘et al.’ [or 'and others']" (18.2.2, p. 352). So, erring on the side of verbosity, set et-al-min to 7 (the current value) and et-al-use-first to 1.
• DOIs should be supplied if available and prefixed doi: (18.8.5, p. 373).
• "It is not advisable to enclose a URL in angle brackets" (18.8.3, p. 372). Nor are access dates enclosed in square brackets (18.8.5, p. 373). For instance: "Hooper, Richard, ‘Lebanon’s Forgotten Space Programme’, BBC News Magazine (14 Nov. 2013), http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24735423, accessed 14 Nov. 2013."
• "In books comprising the edited works of a number of authors, or a collection of documents, essays, congress reports, etc., the editor’s name appears first followed by ed. (standing for ‘editor’; plural eds or eds.) before the book title" (18.2.3, p. 353). This rule pertains also to a chapter within an edited collection. For instance: "Ashworth, A., ‘Belief, Intent, and Criminal Liability’, in J. Eekelaar and J. Bell, eds., Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence, 3rd ser. (1987), 6–25." And note the term in in such cases.
• Reviews also employ the term in, and the reviewed author precedes the title. For instance: "Ames-Lewis, F., review of Ronald Lightbown, Mantegna (Oxford, 1986), in Renaissance Studies, 1 (1987), 273–9." The specification says "the place of publication and date of the book reviewed are helpful but not mandatory," which is good, as I don't believe CSL can do that.
• "Editors of literary texts (or of another author’s papers) are cited after the title; in this case ed. (standing for ‘edited by’) remains unchanged even if there is more than one editor: Hume, David, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton (Oxford, 2000)" (18.2.3, p. 353). A similar rule applies to translators: they are named after the title, preceded by the label tr. or trans. (not trans. by) (18.2.3, p. 354).
• Page ranges: "A span of numbers is often elided to the fewest figures possible" but "do not elide digits in (or ending with) the group 10 to 19" (11.1.4, p. 189). This behavior cannot be replicated by CSL, but setting page-range-format to minimal-two gets closer than chicago, and errs on the side of verbosity.