Thesis item type

psycoperl
What is the Type field used for in this item type?
  • adamsmith
    The type of thesis. "PhD Thesis" "Doctoral Dissertation" "MA Thesis" etc.
  • psycoperl
    Thanks! That is what I thought but wanted to confirm.
  • leahperl
    the Thesis type gets printed out as "Ph.D. Dissertation" in my bibliography, but I want to cite an undergraduate thesis. Which Type should I use?
  • adamsmith
    Which citation style? This may be hardcoded in the style.
  • leahperl
    Sorry my last post was vague. This is when exporting to a .bib file.

    More specifically, here are the reproduction steps:

    1. In the Zotero UI, select "Thesis" in the dropdown menu for my item type.
    2. Export it to the .bib file.
    3a. Expected: it shows as "@thesis" in the .bib file.
    3b. Actual: it shows as "@phdthesis" in the .bib file.
    4. Construct a bibliography from that .bib file in latex using "\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}" (the reference format required by my venue), and the citation says "Ph.D. Dissertation".
  • bwiernik
    If you are writing with LaTeX, you should install the BetterBibTeX plugin and using its Better BibTeX or BetterBibLaTeX format. It has more sophisticated export of the myriad types of .bib theses
  • emilianoeheyns
    Is an undergraduate thesis different from a bachelor thesis?
  • bwiernik
    No those are the same. Sometimes they have additional qualifiers like “Honors thesis”
  • emilianoeheyns
    But honors could be Ba or Ma, right? I've added undergrad as an alias for a bach thesis.
  • leahperl
    edited August 25, 2022
    @bwiernik, thanks for the suggestion. To clarify, I already have BetterBibTeX installed. My earlier posts describe the behavior of Zotero with BetterBibTeX.

    It sounds like you are hinting at some feature of BetterBibTeX that would enable me to differentiate between different kinds of theses? If so, could you please give me more detailed instructions on how to configure my export settings so I can create an item that will be exported to .bib with the type "@thesis"?

    Thanks!

  • warwickmm
    This seems related:

    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/398735/#Comment_398735
  • emilianoeheyns
    @warwickmm is right. Set the Item Type to "Thesis" and then enter the thesis type in the Type field.
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