How to cite an online digital resource

andreas.vitikan
Hello all,

I'm new to Zotero but really liking it so far. I wanted to ask - how should I go about adding an online digital resource such as IMAIOS. I tried adding manual entries both as web page or as encyclopedia article but neither had quite the right fields. I want to store the webpage address (URL), as well as the DOI and ISSN (which I can't do with a web page entry), as well as the authors, title and all the standard things. I also would like to store date and date accessed and have yet to find which type of Zotero entry has all these fields so I can properly add this digital resource to my library.

Or if there isn't one default entry that has all these things, can I add extra fields to an already existing entry template?

Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    Any reason that shouldn't just be a journal article?
  • andreas.vitikan
    I thought about doing that as well whilst leaving some blank fields, because there is no Journal name, issue, volume, pages (ie. 123-127) or anything like that, but it does have the DOI field.
    Also, I noticed that when I import RefMan citations from Google Scholar (in .ris format) I get a DOI field in Zotero, but when I manually add a journal article I can't seem to find the DOI field.
  • adamsmith
    but when I manually add a journal article I can't seem to find the DOI field.
    It's almost certainly there -- are you sure you're not creating a magazine or newspaper article instead?
  • andreas.vitikan
    > are you sure you're not creating a magazine or newspaper article instead?

    I had it set as an Encyclopedia article. I converted the entry to a Journal article which does have all the fields I need - DOI, ISSN, etc. and I simply left empty the scientific journal fields. Thank you so much for your help!
  • adamsmith
    FWIW, while I'd recommend sticking with journal article, you can add other fields to item types that don't include them by putting them in the Extra field as described here: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/item_types_and_fields#additional_item_types_and_fields
  • andreas.vitikan
    I didn't know that, but the PubMed central ID's that you can add seem handy! Thanks for all the help! I got everything working correctly now.
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