URLs truncated in my bibliography

peggyh01 · 2024-04-30T20:53:21+00:00

I'm using Annual Reviews of Public Health style in a Word document. In my bibliography, which includes a lot of websites, the website URLs are being truncated. I need the full URLs to appear.
For example, https://www.cdc.gov/brfss
Appears as, https://www.cdc.gov

Please let me know how to correct this. Thank you!

adamsmith · 2024-04-30T22:11:01+00:00

Zotero isn't even able to do this if you wanted to, so I'd expect this to be in the URL field like this

peggyh01 · 2024-04-30T22:56:25+00:00

The full URL is in my Zotero library. It is only truncated in the bibliography in my Word document. I don't know how Zotero is doing it, but it definitely is.

dstillman · 2024-05-01T10:48:26+00:00

Can you share screenshots of 1) the bibliography entry and 2) the underlying data of the citation in question after toggling Word field codes?

peggyh01 · 2024-05-01T18:04:47+00:00

Sure, here's a screenshot of the entry in Zotero:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u13467290/gxoai5yp22gulsk0cr5a.jpg

When I toggle the field codes, this is what I see:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u13467290/yixs7q5wchz58wl9vt6f.png

dstillman · 2024-05-01T21:02:45+00:00

No, I’m asking for a screenshot of the bibliography entry you’re describing and the field code of the citation earlier in the document. Nothing in Zotero itself.

peggyh01 · 2024-05-01T22:06:49+00:00

I see. Here you go:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u13467290/inchr764r4il5kon5ub0.png

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u13467290/e4odxaw1saiip0jvfk8q.png

The full URL is appearing in the field code, interestingly.

adamsmith · 2024-05-01T23:47:40+00:00

Bizarre. I'm wondering if this is a line break and the rest of the line gets hidden? Which citation style is this? If you show formatting marks in Word, do they show at the end of the line? What happens if you select the bibliography and set the font size to something tiny like 7?

peggyh01 · 2024-05-01T23:55:50+00:00

The citation style is Annual Reviews of Public Health.
What's happening with websites is consistent across all of them - everything after the first backslash in the URL is being dropped. Changing font size for bibliography didn't change the issue.

poettli · 2024-05-02T01:46:05+00:00

The citation style is a dependence of the "Annual Reviews (sorted alphabetically)" style which itself shortens the URL in bibliography (line 245). So someone would need to check if the "Annual Reviews (sorted alphabetically)" is outdated (or not) and if it needs updates accordingly. I link the current handbook for Annual Reviews, as the link provided in the csl file is dead: https://www.annualreviews.org/pb-assets/authors assets/authorhandbook-numbered.pdf

adamsmith · 2024-05-02T01:51:14+00:00

oh my, I'm so sorry, I completely forgot that we can actually do form="short" on URLs in CSL.
Yeah, that looks wrong in general, we can fix.

damnation · 2024-05-02T07:51:04+00:00

(PR: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/7033)

peggyh01 · 2024-05-02T17:26:34+00:00

@adamsmith, thank you for confirming this can be fixed. Looking at current papers in Annual Reviews in Public Health, full URLs are in the bibliographies.

As a test, I used Vancouver and that showed full URLs, so it does seem to be a style issue.

If you could let me know when this is fixed, that would be great. Thank you.

adamsmith · 2024-05-02T17:35:00+00:00

Fixed now -- style should auto-update locally by tomorrow (you won't see a new update date for the public health style on the Zotero repository; check the Annual Reviews (sorted alphabetically) style instead)