Inserting URLs only for website references in the bibliography

halloleo

Hi there

I am starting to use zotero and it is a great tool to collect references. Then I export them as bibtex file and generate a nice bibliography from it.

However, I have the problem that all references like books, articles, websites et al get listed in the final output with URLs (when they have some in their zotero metadata).

Often they have URLs in the metadata because I was able to collect a PDF from the Internet, but books and article I want to list in my bibliography without the URLs. However in zotero it is handy to keep the URLs for future look-ups. How can I tell the system to use URLs for things like website, etc, but not for books et al.

In my tool chain I see different “points of customisation”:

1. Distinguish in the zotero metadata. (In which field?)
2. Remove the URLs for books in the export translator. (How?)
3. Use a CSL style aware of URLs in books and ignore them. (Which Havard CSL does this?)

Any suggestion, what’s the easiest approach? Anybody solved this problem?

Many thanks, Leo

adamsmith

Elsevier Harvard would do 3).
If you're not using Zotero to create bibliographies, we need you to mention this in your posts (and say what you're using) to avoid confusion.

halloleo

Thanks for pointing out Elsevier.

I've tested it in zotero and it does the right thing there. :-)

However again in pandoc/bibtex/latex it doesn't: There Elsevier ALWAYS omits the URLs.

So pandoc/bibtex/latex does not seem to obey the styles correctly, I guess...

adamsmith

different question, but same answer as https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/32072/website-citation-via-harvard-style/