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  • northword said, "Zotero does not automatically recognize languages..." Zotero's language tag is received from metadata provided by the publisher of the journal or database. Several publishers do not provide a language tag and Zotero, properly, does…
  • Are you exporting to EndNote? Are you exporting a Zotero library to another Zotero user? If you want another Zotero user to have access to your Zotero records you should create a Zotero Group, place those records into the new group, and invite the …
  • "Just about any database I use" is not useful information to those who might help you. What specific database? How are you accessing the database? edit: You need to provide the means for someone to duplicate your issue. Provide a URL as you see it…
  • Zotero should automatically properly case the word after the colon when the title and subtitle are stored in sentence case with APA style.
  • Do submit the Report ID (follow the link above). Are you using Zotero 6 or the 7 beta? How long is "forever"? In a long document, Word for Mac is known to be very slow. Zotero is working with Microsoft to improve the speed. (Other bibliography manag…
  • See: https://www.zotero.org/support/duplicate_detection This also discusses merging duplicate records in addition to describing the detection utility. There have been attempts to use a plugin to automate the process. I don't know if any are curren…
  • See: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing Item titles in Zotero should be stored in sentence case (that is, the first letter of the first word in upper case with everything else except proper nouns and acronyms [COVID, NASA, UK, USA, e…
  • What bibliographic style are you using? Unless you are using a rare style that was developed outside of the CSL/Zotero community, what you get in the bibliography is almost certainly correct. The way that author names are listed alphabetically can …
  • You said: "I am not sure that my usage is that unusual." As the curator of an online literature database and a user of Zotero to help with populating my database, I've read every forum post here about Zotero and databases since 2007. I also read fo…
  • Only Medline articles have MeSH terms. Other items in PubMed may have author-assigned (rarely editor-assigned) keywords. Articles from Medline journals can be added to the database (days or weeks) before the indexing with MeSH terms is complete. MeS…
  • Re: exploding a search term: https://researchguides.uvm.edu/c.php?g=945157&p=6813923 "Exploding" an index term refers to searching on that term AND all (and any) of the more narrow terms below it in the thesaurus hierarchical structure. Expl…
  • You commented, "The hard part would mapping queries to MeSH headings/sub headings..." Medline uses a controlled vocabulary (MeSH) with terms assigned to its records by human indexers. Many MeSH terms have synonyms so that if one queries the databas…
  • You asked, "Where does Zotero fetch the citation?" https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators Zotero recognizes the database or the publisher website and "finds" the best way to obtain the correct and appropriate metadata from that specific so…
  • Are you planning on using a different software package to search the Zotero database? If so, I fear that is unwise (unless you plan to use a copy of the Zotero database). You wrote: It also takes either a little magic in your database (why I am als…
  • Is it your desire to refresh your ahead-of-print records with volume, issue, pagination metadata? Some other purpose? are you asking about PubMed as the import source, other specific sources, or in general? Do your Zotero records have PMIDs or DOIs?…
  • Are the duplicates seen in your bibliography? Are you using Microsoft Word? Explain "online word". What version of Word? Have you refreshed your bibliography using the Zotero controls? You wrote, "duplicating AV references". Do you mean OF referenc…
  • I edit the item type and metadata to meet the needs of what I am writing: I encounter this often with metadata for gray literature downloaded from government agencies and non-governmental organizations. When I look at the raw metadata on the publis…
  • You don't need to start with a record for the whole book. If you want Zotero records for academic/technical book chapters (sections), the best way to enter the record is to import the chapter(s) from the publishers' websites. Most publishers will li…
  • What word processor and version? What operating system and version? What version of Zotero? What bibliographic style? Better describe what you mean by "crash". Does it seem that Zotero or your word processor freezes or something else? Please descri…
  • On a Mac it is: Tools : Plugins
  • Not seeing the file I can't comment on its OCR quality. But this is a larger issue. Many times a database, say, PubMed, or the metadata from a publisher's website will not contain an abstract but there is an article summary on the publisher's webp…
  • A known issue with the problem on the CT.gov side. See: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/113535/importing-from-clinicaltrials-gov-doesnt-work/p1
  • Please consider saving multiple sequential copies of your Word document throughout your writing process. I save-as my document about every hour. The documents don't require very much space. This, for me, is a safety/recovery precaution. If you have …
  • Please describe what you want in greater detail. What item? On top of what list? If you are asking about how to move a collection to the top of the list, start the collection name with a punctuation ! will work with English.
  • No plugins or extensions. I'm at a loss to explain this. I can't be alone unless it is all on my end. Or, are the others who have this problem not noticing that the title doesn't correspond with the metadata. I have my references sorted by data dat…
  • Please help me to identify the problem that causes this. Is is exclusively on my computer or is this something of a broader problem. I downloaded the article "Establishment of safety management measures ..." from the MDPI website. I then downloaded …
  • I don't feel confident that I understand because these two things seem contradictory: - I do not want to show the abstract in my citations/bibliography - ... I want to cite the things not just store them in my database Each of your examples was t…
  • I attached to an email to support@zotero.org a video demonstration of the problem.
  • @adamsmith Yes, that is what makes this so curious. It could be a display issue but intermittent? Mac Studio M2 Max 64 GB Sonoma 14.3.1. Zotero 7.0.0 beta 68. (This only began a few days ago.) It makes no sense, given how I assume database saving r…
  • More information: This intermittent issue isn't limited to Springer-Nature items. It also happens with other publishers. I add an item using the browser bar icon. The item gets downloaded and the new record's title displays correctly in the list co…