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Hi every one, I am interested in making the Reference file which exactly looks like in the picture, but the csl file that was available in mendeleyneed in this style

but the csl file give like this

[csl file gives this format

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" version="1.0" demote-non-dropping-particle="sort-only" default-locale="en-GB">
  <info>
    <title>The Open University - M801 - Research Project and Dissertation</title>
    <id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/the-open-university-m801</id>
    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/the-open-university-m801" rel="self"/>
    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/harvard-anglia-ruskin-university" rel="template"/>
    <link href="http://www.open.ac.uk/library/help-and-support/referencing-styles" rel="documentation"/>
    <author>
      <name>Zsuzsa Nagy</name>
    </author>
    <category citation-format="author-date"/>
    <summary>Harvard style for the OU M801 TMAs and dissertation</summary>
    <updated>2012-09-27T22:06:38+00:00</updated>
    <rights license="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License</rights>
  </info>
  <macro name="cite-author">
    <choose>
      <if type="broadcast" match="any">
        <text variable="title" font-style="italic" suffix=","/>
      </if>
      <else-if type="bill legislation motion_picture" match="any">
        <text variable="title" font-style="italic" suffix="."/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="legal_case" match="any">
        <text variable="title" font-style="italic"/>
      </else-if>
      <else>
        <names variable="author">
          <name name-as-sort-order="all" and="text" sort-separator=", " initialize-with="." delimiter-precedes-last="never" delimiter=", " suffix=","/>
          <label form="short" prefix=" "/>
          <substitute>
            <text macro="editor-detail"/>
            <text macro="anon" suffix=","/>
          </substitute>
        </names>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <macro name="editor-detail">
    <names variable="editor">
      <name name-as-sort-order="all" and="text" sort-separator=", " initialize-with="." delimiter-precedes-last="never" delimiter=", "/>
      <label form="short" prefix=" " suffix=".," strip-periods="true"/>
    </names>
  </macro>
  <macro name="anon">
    <text term="anonymous" form="short" text-case="capitalize-first" strip-periods="true"/>
  </macro>
  <macro name="year-date">
    <choose>
      <if type="bill legislation" match="none">
        <choose>
          <if type="legal_case" match="any">
            <date variable="issued">
              <date-part name="year" prefix="[" suffix="]"/>
            </date>
          </if>
          <else-if variable="issued">
            <date variable="issued">
              <date-part name="year"/>
            </date>
          </else-if>
          <else-if variable="accessed">
            <choose>
              <if type="webpage song" match="any">
                <date variable="accessed">
                  <date-part name="year"/>
                </date>
              </if>
              <else>
                <text term="no date" form="short"/>
              </else>
            </choose>
          </else-if>
          <else>
            <text term="no date" form="short"/>
          </else>
        </choose>
      </if>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <macro name="primary-title">
    <choose>
      <if type="chapter entry-dictionary entry-encyclopedia article-journal article-newspaper article-magazine paper-conference post-weblog post" match="any">
        <group>
          <text variable="title"/>
        </group>
      </if>
      <else-if type="bill legal_case legislation motion_picture" match="any">
        <text variable="collection-number"/>
      </else-if>
      <else>
        <choose>
          <if type="broadcast" match="none">
            <group delimiter=". ">
              <group delimiter=". ">
                <text variable="title" font-style="italic"/>
                <text macro="edition-no"/>
              </group>
              <text variable="collection-title"/>
            </group>
          </if>
        </choose>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <macro name="edition-no">
    <group delimiter=" ">
      <number variable="edition" form="ordinal"/>
      <text term="edition" form="short"/>
    </group>
  </macro>
  <macro name="translator">
    <names variable="translator">
      <name and="text" initialize-with="." delimiter=". " prefix="Translated by " suffix="."/>
    </names>
  </macro>
  <macro name="bill-detail">
    <choose>
      <if type="bill legislation" match="any">
        <group delimiter=". ">
          <text variable="section"/>
          <text variable="volume"/>
        </group>
      </if>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <macro name="publisher">
    <choose>
      <if type="thesis">
        <group delimiter=", ">
          <text variable="publisher"/>
        </group>
      </if>
      <else-if type="manuscript">
        <group delimiter=", ">
          <text variable="archive"/>
          <group delimiter=". ">
            <text variable="archive_location"/>
            <text variable="publisher-place"/>
          </group>
        </group>
      </else-if>
      <else>
        <group delimiter=": ">
          <text variable="publisher-place"/>
          <text variable="publisher"/>
        </group>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <macro name="container">
    <choose>
      <if type="chapter entry-dictionary entry-encyclopedia paper-conference" match="any">
        <group suffix=".">
          <text term="in" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=": "/>
          <group delimiter=", ">
            <names variable="editor" delimiter=", ">
              <name and="text" sort-separator=", " initialize-with="." delimiter-precedes-last="never" delimiter=", "/>
              <label form="short" prefix=", "/>
            </names>
            <group delimiter=", ">
              <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>
              <text variable="collection-title"/>
              <choose>
                <if is-numeric="edition">
                  <group delimiter=" ">
                    <number variable="edition" form="ordinal"/>
                    <text term="edition" form="short"/>
                  </group>
                </if>
                <else>
                  <text variable="edition" suffix="."/>
                </else>
              </choose>
            </group>
          </group>
        </group>
      </if>
      <else-if type="bill legislation webpage" match="any">
        <text variable="container-title" suffix="."/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="legal_case">
        <text variable="container-title"/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="patent">
        <text variable="number" suffix="."/>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="motion_picture">
        <text variable="medium" prefix="[" suffix="]"/>
        <names variable="author">
          <name and="text" sort-separator=", " initialize-with="." delimiter-precedes-last="never" delimiter=", " prefix=" Directed by " suffix="."/>
          <label form="short" prefix=" "/>
        </names>
      </else-if>
      <else>
        <choose>
          <if variable="volume issue page" match="any">
            <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic" suffix=", "/>
          </if>
          <else>
            <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic" suffix="."/>
          </else>
        </choose>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <macro name="locator">
    <choose>
      <if type="article-journal article-newspaper article-magazine interview" match="any">
        <group delimiter=", " suffix=".">
          <group>
            <text variable="volume"/>
            <text variable="issue" prefix="(" suffix=")"/>
          </group>
          <choose>
            <if type="article-magazine article-newspaper interview" match="any">
              <date variable="issued" delimiter=" ">
                <date-part name="day"/>
                <date-part name="month" form="short"/>
              </date>
            </if>
          </choose>
          <choose>
            <if variable="page">
              <group>
                <label variable="page" form="short"/>
                <text variable="page"/>
              </group>
            </if>
          </choose>
        </group>
      </if>
      <else-if type="book chapter paper-conference manuscript entry-dictionary entry-encyclopedia thesis motion_picture song report" match="any">
        <group suffix=".">
          <text variable="event" suffix=". "/>
          <group delimiter=", ">
            <text macro="publisher"/>
            <group>
              <label variable="page" form="short"/>
              <text variable="page"/>
            </group>
          </group>
        </group>
      </else-if>
      <else-if type="broadcast">
        <group delimiter=". ">
          <text variable="event"/>
          <text macro="publisher"/>
          <group>
            <date variable="issued" delimiter=" ">
              <date-part name="day"/>
              <date-part name="month" form="short"/>
            </date>
          </group>
        </group>
      </else-if>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <macro name="author-short">
    <choose>
      <if type="bill broadcast legal_case legislation motion_picture" match="any">
        <text variable="title"/>
      </if>
      <else>
        <names variable="author">
          <name form="short" and="text" sort-separator=", " initialize-with="." delimiter-precedes-last="never" delimiter=", "/>
          <substitute>
            <names variable="editor"/>
            <text variable="title"/>
          </substitute>
        </names>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" collapse="year-suffix">
    <layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
      <group delimiter=", ">
        <group delimiter=", ">
          <group font-weight="bold">
          <text macro="author-short"/>
          <text macro="year-date"/>
        </group>
        <group prefix=" ">
          <label variable="locator" form="short"/>
          <text variable="locator"/>
        </group>
      </group>
    </layout>
  </citation>
  <bibliography hanging-indent="false" et-al-min="5" et-al-use-first="1">
    <sort>
      <key macro="cite-author"/>
      <key macro="year-date"/>
      <key variable="title"/>
    </sort>
    <layout suffix=".">
      <group delimiter=" ">
        <text macro="cite-author"/>
        <choose>
          <if type="legal_case" match="any">
            <text macro="year-date"/>
          </if>
          <else>
            <text macro="year-date" suffix=". "/>
          </else>
        </choose>
      </group>
      <group delimiter=" ">
        <text macro="primary-title" suffix="."/>
        <group delimiter=". " prefix=" ">
          <text macro="translator"/>
          <text macro="bill-detail"/>
          <text macro="container"/>
        </group>
        <text macro="locator"/>
      </group>
    </layout>
  </bibliography>
</style>

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You can use the visual editor on Citation Styles Website

It is not that intuitive at first, but once you got the hang of it, just find a similar style that you need and customize it to suit your needs.

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