can't choose citation style with export to .csv

alixk

I need to export a collection as a .csv for later import to Drupal. I want to export in AMA style, and I have that selected as default style in Settings, but I can't choose a style at export and it doesn't seem to be using AMA for the output.

Is this possible with exporting a collection, or is it only possible with citations/bibliographies? Thanks!

adamsmith

All exports are style agnostic -- in CSV, that means you have every field in its own column, so "AMA" (or any other style description) doesn't really make sense.

How exactly are you planning to use this in Drupal? The Biblio module has import from RIS, which Zotero exports.

alixk

OK, that's kinda what I thought. Unfortunately for our institutional installation of Drupal we don't have access to the Biblio module; it's a custom 'Publications' module which accepts a .csv for bulk import.

The lab I work for uses Am Medical Assoc style (AMA) which has a Lastname, First initial(s) convention, and I would really like to be able to export the author names that way in the .csv from Zotero. The other requirements for the import template are easy enough to bulk edit (like pipes instead of comma delimiters), but I'm not skilled enough to do the author names!

adamsmith

Only way to do this is by modifying the exporter ('translator') -- wouldn't be terribly hard to do, here's the relevant bit: https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/CSV.js#L237