Unwanted urls polluting my references

etienneengineering

Hey team!
When I use the styles APA and Chicago with Zotero plugin in word I get the urls where I found the references in my reference list. I don´t want to have them. How to fix that? Thanks a lot in advance!
Etienne

adamsmith

Could you give a couple of examples? Generally both of those styles would want URLs included for references retrieved from said URLs.

etienneengineering

Thanks for your help!
Here are 2 examples:

Buxton, Bill. 2010. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. San Francisco, USA: Morgan Kaufmann. https://www.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2vfPxocmLh0C&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=buxton+sketching+user+ex&ots=05Owjik0_J&sig=EcB2W9kcAZX0vBdY6kqRQbAgJSo.

The url comes from the URL field.
I don´t want to have it.
This reference is a "Book".

Evans, Martyn. 2014. ‘Researching the Future by Design’. In The Routledge Companion to Design Research. New York, NY, USA: Routledge Handbooks Online. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758466.ch15.

Here the url comes apparently from the "Extra" field, that contains the DOI, as a number, not as an url. I don´t need it.
This reference is a "Book section".

bwiernik

The first you should just delete Google Books URLs from your Zotero data (and perhaps add it as a link attached to the item if you want to keep that).

The second you should absolutely retain—the DOI is generally the single most important piece of information in modern referencing and is required by both Chicago and APA.

etienneengineering

@bwiernik
1. agree
2. agree
BUT is there a way to control what fields end up being cited or not? I know there is plenty of documentation about this, where should I look?

Thanks a lot!

bwiernik

You can edit the CSL code for a style:
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

But I’m not following what change you want to make here?

etienneengineering

That solves my problem for now!
And now I know how to twitch the styles.
Sometimes the journal templates recommend a style and their templates variate a bit from the original style.

damnation

In the case that there are small discrepancies we would ask you to either report the errors here so we can fix them or for you to add fixes to the styles via the repository (we can guide you in that case). That way not just you have a fixed style, but thousands of other users too. ;) that's the beauty of openly sharing software. We can work together to make it better.