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  <info>
    <title>Custom Citation Style</title>
    <id>https://csl.mendeley.com/styles/custom-style</id>
    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/custom-style" rel="self"/>
    <author>
      <name>Your Name</name>
      <email>your-email@example.com</email>
    </author>
    <category citation-format="numeric"/>
    <category field="engineering"/>
    <category field="science"/>
    <summary>Custom citation style based on provided criteria.</summary>
    <updated>2025-02-02T10:00:00+00:00</updated>
  </info>

  <macro name="author">
    <names variable="author">
      <name delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="always" et-al-min="4" et-al-use-first="3"/>
    </names>
  </macro>

  <macro name="title">
    <text variable="title"/>
  </macro>

  <macro name="titleField">
    <choose>
      <if type="article-journal">
        <text macro="title" suffix="[J]. "/>
      </if>
      <else-if type="book">
        <text macro="title" suffix="[M]. "/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="chapter">
        <text macro="title" suffix="[A]. In: "/>
        <names variable="editor" suffix=". "/>
        <text variable="container-title" suffix="[M]. "/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="paper-conference">
        <text macro="title" suffix="[A]. In: "/>
        <text variable="container-title" suffix="[C]. "/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="thesis">
        <text macro="title" suffix="[D]. "/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="report">
        <text macro="title" suffix="[R]. "/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="patent">
        <text macro="title" suffix="[P]. "/>
        <text variable="number" prefix="Patent No: " suffix=". "/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="standard">
        <text variable="number" suffix=". "/>
        <text macro="title" suffix="[S]. "/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="webpage">
        <text macro="title" suffix="[EB/OL]. "/>
      </else-if>
      <!-- Default to [J] if type is missing -->
      <else>
        <text macro="title" suffix="[J]. "/>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>

  <macro name="publisher">
    <text variable="publisher-place" suffix=": "/>
    <text variable="publisher" suffix=", "/>
    <date variable="issued">
      <date-part name="year"/>
    </date>
  </macro>

  <macro name="pageField">
    <text variable="page" prefix=": "/>
  </macro>

  <citation et-al-min="4" et-al-use-first="3" collapse="year-suffix-ranged">
    <sort>
      <key variable="citation-number" sort="ascending"/>
    </sort>
    <layout vertical-align="sup" prefix="[" suffix="]" delimiter=", ">
      <text variable="citation-number"/>
    </layout>
  </citation>

  <bibliography et-al-min="4" et-al-use-first="3" second-field-align="flush" entry-spacing="0">
    <layout suffix=".">
      <text variable="citation-number" prefix="[" suffix="]"/>
      <text macro="author" suffix=". "/>
      <text macro="titleField"/>
      <text macro="publisher" suffix=". "/>
      <text macro="pageField"/>
    </layout>
  </bibliography>
</style>