Item type: citing an internet-based database

walentas

Hiya-

I am trying to cite a number of databases that exist on the net (or whole corporate sites) in a peer-reviewed medical journal, however none of the item types seem to be appropriate- although to be fair I've not scoured them all.

There's one for blog, really?

I was trying to conform to this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=citmed&part=A57255

I can do so manually, but figured if I could learn how to do it properly it would be easier in the long run.

Is this is the works or perhaps I'm simply overlooking something?

Cheers,
christopher

adamsmith

you should be able to get pretty much that by using the website item type - I haven't checked every little detail, but that should do.

walentas

Semi-pilot error.

There is indeed a website item- I'd been looking under New item -> More and it doesn't show up there. Not wanting to waste time I tried New Item from Page and it's fine.

I'd still like to learn how to do it properly- add fields and get the style to output properly, but from what I've read through the forums it sounds less than facile- or rather less easy for someone who doesn't breath xml.

Thanks you- next time I'll spend that extra bit of time banging around before pestering anyone.

Do people formally cite blogs? I guess I'm getting old...

Cheers!

adamsmith

Instead of modifying the style you're probably better of with fiddling with the data input than with the output - i.e. adjust the content of the fields rather than the style.
This may prove a helpful tool:
chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul

Some of the item types in zotero seem a bit random - i'd say podcast more so than blogpost - but neither of them is actually treated individually by the style output. But for what it's worth, blogs are taken quite seriously in some disciplines, most notably in economics, where a significant part of the policy debate is now taking place on blogs.