Edited version of British Journal of Cancer

knowledge_PCUK

Hi,
I am submitting an article to the BJC but the way that documents (non-journal articles) are cited in the text are not how the journal is requesting. These are records I have added manually, e.g. a PDF report available to download from a website. The in-text citation needs to be (Publisher, Year) but the BJC style in Zotero currently does (Title, Year).

I tried to look how to modify the style but found it too confusing! Can I request this as a style please?

Thanks,
Ali

adamsmith

the easiest would be to just add the publisher as author for the item in Zotero.

knowledge_PCUK

But how should I do this if it's an organisation since author asks for first name and last name?

adamsmith

click on the white rectangle next to an author to switch it to single field for institutional authors (see first paragraph here: http://zotero-manual.github.io/zotero-manual/adding-items#manually_adding_and_editing_creators )

knowledge_PCUK

If I add the organisation's name as the 'author surname' then this works for the in-text citation, but then the URL isn't included in the bibliography list (as it would be if author was blank - and I want it to be included!)

knowledge_PCUK

Ok, I see the single field option, but the URL is then omitted from the reference list

adamsmith

Having an author has nothing to do with including the URL. The style will never print a URL (unless, of course, you have it in some other field than "URL") under any circumstances. There is no example of a URL in BJC's reference style at http://www.nature.com/bjc/authors/submit.html#how-to-submit"

knowledge_PCUK

True - I see your point now about how a URL isn't included in the bibliography using this style, whether there's an author or not. I contacted BJC as, on the page you included above, it doesn't state how to cite a document or website that is not a journal article or book. There reply was that it should follow one of the below patterns - I was planning on the 2nd one: Author (Year) Title Hyperlink (accessed date).

In text
(National Cancer institute, 2013)

Reference
National Cancer Institute Obesity and cancer risk. Retrieved on 17 December 2013 from http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/obesity.

In text
(NC3Rs, 2013)

Reference
NC3Rs (2013) Humane end points: National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/category.asp?catID=21 (accessed:08/12/2013).

adamsmith

OK, I have it on my list but not going to be very soon, sorry, so if you need this quickly you're probably best of manually adding the URLs.

knowledge_PCUK

Thanks - not in a great rush. Ali

adamsmith

The style is now fixed. The updated version will appear on the repository within 30mins (check the timestamp). Update your copy of the style by clicking "Update Now" in the General tab of the Zotero preferences.

Styles also update automatically within 24hs for Zotero 4.0+
In an existing document, you may have to switch to a different style and back for the changes to take effect once the style is updated.
Any further problems please let us know & thanks for reporting

knowledge_PCUK

Hi Adam,
Thanks for this. I see this how now resolved the issue for 'web page' items but it still dorsn't include the URL for items I've added manually into Zotero as file type 'document'.
Can you add in the URL for this type please? (don't need accessed date).
Thanks,
Ali

adamsmith

I'm not sure I like the idea of adding URLs to too many item types, that can create undesired side effects - and specifically, "document" is not a great category to work with - so I'd recommend you switch those over to web page item types.

knowledge_PCUK

Ok. Is there a simple/quick way for me to do this?

adamsmith

Unfortunately not in bulk, but for individual items, just click on the "Document" label in the right-hand column and switch it to "Webpage"