Online Journal Inquiry

VJDC
Does Zotero automatically set issue number to 1 in online journals?
In this example below, i inserted the DOI to Zotero and it registered as issue number 1, although it is an online journal. Not sure how this works and I forgot how to retrieve metadata from DOI

https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-6-20

From the journal website itself, the citation does not seem to have an issue number... or am I missing something?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u13514424/z9ndt716ki5ajoc97zcu.png

  • aborel
    The metadata on the article page actually says

    <meta name="citation_issue" content="1"/>


    And their RIS citation also contains that issue number.
  • VJDC
    This does seem to be an issue with the site itself. Ironically, I found that it also has a starting and last page which should not be the case especially if it's an online-only journal. Additionally, the article number is places on "pages" as well but found it was the case from other forum discussions addressed.

    Using this site to get RIS, I could not seem to find the issue number:

    https://paperpile.com/t/doi-to-ris-converter/
  • aborel
    Are you considering that wrong? I don't. There is nothing ironic about page or issue numbers in online-only journals. Journal can use them by tradition, even if they are less useful than they used to be.
    There are many things one could consider wrong in the world of scientific journals. The existence of thousands of different citation styles is one of them, and yet here we are... and sometimes we are even enjoying it :-D
  • VJDC
    That does make sense. Thank you
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