Upgrade StorageWhen importing a list of citations, multiple authors import as one
Hi,
This has happened over two methods. When I try to export a citation list from Covidence (Zotero txt file) and from Endnote (xml file or text file) separately, Zotero does not import the authors properly. For example, I can open the text files and see that two or more authors may be separated by colon (Smith, J.: Appleseed, J.:) or by commas (Smith, J. Appleseed, J). But in Zotero all articles are listed with only one author entry (Smith, J. Appleseed J.)
Period delimited files present another issue as the software won't be able to tell whats a first name and whats a last name. Same thing will probably happen with dash delimited.
Other function works fine with the imported citations, for example, pdf search can match online pdfs correctly with no problem even if the authors are all crammed into one entry.
However, this will become a problem later on during citation generation.
Is there a function in Zotero to sort this out?
This has happened over two methods. When I try to export a citation list from Covidence (Zotero txt file) and from Endnote (xml file or text file) separately, Zotero does not import the authors properly. For example, I can open the text files and see that two or more authors may be separated by colon (Smith, J.: Appleseed, J.:) or by commas (Smith, J. Appleseed, J). But in Zotero all articles are listed with only one author entry (Smith, J. Appleseed J.)
Period delimited files present another issue as the software won't be able to tell whats a first name and whats a last name. Same thing will probably happen with dash delimited.
Other function works fine with the imported citations, for example, pdf search can match online pdfs correctly with no problem even if the authors are all crammed into one entry.
However, this will become a problem later on during citation generation.
Is there a function in Zotero to sort this out?