Add reference from Clinical Trials.org

punamsawant · June 8, 2019

I am trying to add reference in zotero from ClinicalTrial.gov. I do not have Endnote so I could not use the approach that someone recommended before. Please help me with this issue.

bwiernik · June 8, 2019

Currently, full import isn't possible. You can import as a webpage using the Zotero browser button, then change the type to Report and enter the remaining information manually.

@adamsmith @zuphillip clinicaltrials.gov has a pretty clean XML format and a URL scheme that should work for a translator: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/resources/download

adamsmith · June 8, 2019

I've added a ticket to track this:
https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/1952

kez_mills · March 31, 2020

Just wondering if it's possible to manually create a citation type? I do meta-analyses and cite clinical trials ALL THE TIME. It would be so great to have a citation type called Clinical Trial.

BTW Zotero is absolutely wonderful and I'm super grateful for it!

adamsmith · March 31, 2020

No, you can't currently create custom item types, sorry. This may happen in the future, but not any time very soon. (We may still add import from clinicaltrials.gov to a different item type, so that's somewhat unrelated)

rdvelazquez · April 1, 2020

I'm working on adding clinicaltrials.gov here: https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/2153

I'm new to Zotero so any help is very welcome.

The one question I have now is how do you test the translator on your local machine while developing it?

damnation · April 1, 2020

You can install custom translators. See how for example here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/29924/#Comment_29924