ACS (American Chemical Society) "Publication" and "Journal Abbr."

pgholder

Hi all,

I do not have the skills to write new changes to site translators, but I have a request for anyone who does have that ability.

The current translator for the ACS (american chemical society) journals captures page information ok for me, except it puts what should be the "journal abbreviation" in the "publication" field. While I understand the ACS formatting guidelines recommend the use of abbreviations in citations, most publishers do not use those rules.

In my opinion, the translator should capture both the full publication name as well as the abbreviated name and put them in the appropriate zotero fields.

How do submit a request to have the translator changed? I was unable to find a ticket/submission page for this in the coding instructions of the dev:translators documentation.

Thanks all,

Pat

adamsmith

Here is fine. Zotero is too small to have an open ticketing system (i.e. there is no capacity for a triage team etc.).
I can have a look at this, but IIRC the problem is that the full journal title isn't in the metadata provided by ACS and as far as I can see it's also not on the results page, so I wouldn't know where to get it from.

pgholder

I don't suppose there's a way to automatically dump the publication title in based upon the abbreviation is there? I could give you a mapping of all the abbreviations and their full title names that could be baked into the translator. But I know that's a pretty hacked work around - the metadata should come from the page directly.

Either way, the data that is captured should go in the "Journal Abbr." field and not the "publication" field in my opinion - it is the abbreviation. All of the ACS citation styles use "journal abbr." so it won't break anything there.

adamsmith

I'm not crazy about putting a hack like that into the transalator - how many journals are there?

I disagree on the publication field - I'd much rather have poor data in there than no data at all - though it should probably go into the journal abbr. field as well.

adamsmith

journal titles and abbreviations should now import correctly.