Data Files?

kmarr

I have recently evaluated Zotero and consider giving up my manual system :)

However, I found no way to enter and reference Data files in Zotero?

e.g. World Values Survey Group (2006) World Value Survey [computer file], Ann Arbor, Institute for Social Research [distributor]: 20060423.

Tjowens

It sounds like you want to manually add items to your collection. See the info under maunal additions or watch the screencast on manually adding items.

kmarr

Yes, I would add these manually, but I don't seem to find an appropriate category... The way I handle data files at the moment is as I described, but none of the categories available seems to match my requirements... am I missing something?

Tjowens

You can most likely use a general item type like document. For example, most of the information you list is common to most of the items. From what I can see it looks like these are how your fields break down.

Author: World Values Survey Group
Date: (2006)
Title: World Value Survey [computer file]
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Institute for Social Research [distributor]:
Not sure what this number is: 20060423

You could get all these fields in the basic document item.

kmarr

Thanks. The number is the name of the particular data set. With data sets being updated and made available as pre-releases, this becomes increasingly important. I guess I could include this in the title...

kmarr

One problem, though, with using "Document" is that the different styles used handle it quite differently in the list of references. For the time being I find using "Book" most satisfactory. My comments are probably much more about the state of referencing than Zotero.