Merops update: Accessed date conversions and more...
17 March 2026
We’ve just released a major Merops update – focussing on more automatic edits and fewer comments, plus new features for accessed dates, ibid., and much more.
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References
- Fewer comments:
- Fewer unnecessary or unhelpful comments
- Better address completion instead of adding a comment
- Better website name generation instead of adding a comment
- Accessed dates:
- Merops now generates today’s date, with a comment asking for confirmation
- New editorial rule: URL accessed date in figures or full
- New editorial rule: URL accessed date all-figure date sequence
- New URL accessed date sequence (full): 2026, March 17th
- Other new editorial rules:
- Use 'ibid.' in footnotes: no | preserve original
- Ensure only one reference per ID in numbered references
- Footnotes/endnotes:
- Better conversions from notes to reference lists, particularly within prose
Dates
- New sequence for full dates in general text: 2026, March 5th
- New editorial rule: All-figure date sequence (general text)
Other
- Give organism name in full at first mention rule now works with names unknown to Merops
- Much better recognition of Greek and Japanese
- New settings for existing feature: Correspondence intro text: Address correspondence concerning this article to | Address for correspondence concerning this article | For correspondence concerning this article | Send correspondence to | Send correspondence concerning this article to
This is a Merops Cloud update – no download is necessary.
The update also includes hundreds of other improvements and fixes.
Items with
NEW PREFERENCE or
NEW FEATURE can be turned on immediately
using Custom Properties –
contact us for the codes.
