Books mistaken for articles in footnote references
Hello,
I hope this question wasn't already discussed in another discussion. I have an issue with my footnote references since I re-downloaded Zotero (actual version that I have: Zotero 5.0.90). The books are systematically mistaken for articles in the footnotes, although they are correctly identified as books in my Zotero library. The error only concerns books' references that I entered in the library since I downloaded the new version ; my old references work fine. How can I get this fixed? Thanks a lot in advance for your help!
I hope this question wasn't already discussed in another discussion. I have an issue with my footnote references since I re-downloaded Zotero (actual version that I have: Zotero 5.0.90). The books are systematically mistaken for articles in the footnotes, although they are correctly identified as books in my Zotero library. The error only concerns books' references that I entered in the library since I downloaded the new version ; my old references work fine. How can I get this fixed? Thanks a lot in advance for your help!
For other more experienced folks on the forums to better help you:
Please tell us what style you are using.
What word processor are you using? What version of the software?
Where did you download / import the book records? Did you hand-enter those records?
Are you sure that all of the appropriate book-type metadata fields are included in your Zotero record?
Please provide an example of your text that demonstrates what you mean. It isn't clear to me why you believe that 'books are systematically mistaken for articles'.
Are you certain that the ambiguous items in your Zotero library are set as Type: book at the top of each problematic new record?
edit: TMI The student I was helping is using a beta version of Zotero but you are using a very recent version. (I barter my help with editing and proofreading manuscripts for their volunteer help with my projects. Thus, I didn't have much opportunity to test further when playing with someone's document. The items I downloaded were relevant to their research.)
When looking at the metadata fields to answer your question I found the solution: in the "extra" section of the informations about the reference, in addition to the ISSN of the book, there was written "text reorganized from". I don't know why the SUDOC imports added this element. But I removed it and left just the ISSN, and the footnotes got right again.
(What I meant by books mistaken for articles is this: for instance with the book David Robinson, Paths Of Accommodation: Muslim Societies And French Colonial Authorities In Senegal And Mauritania, 1880-1920, Athens, Ohio University Press, 2000, 361 p., it was written in the footnote reference as: David Robinson, "Paths Of Accomodation: Muslim Societies And French Colonial Authorities In Senegal And Mauritania, 1880-1920").
Thanks again, I should have looked more closely before asking the forum!
It seems that it concerns books steming from a PhD dissertation, because the description then indicates that it is a "text reorganized from the PhD dissertation": http://www.sudoc.fr/199763402
@dstillman -- we can probably do something about this in the translator, but this is also a bug in Zotero's moving field information to Extra:
The translator puts thesis information in
newItem.type
for dissertations. That'sgenre
in CSL terms, but Zotero actually writes the information asType: XYZ
into extra for non-thesis item types, overwriting the item type on citation (and in almost all cases to something invalid). Not sure what the right behavior is, some options:- Zotero could just never move item.type to extra
- Zotero could move item.type to genre: in extra
- Zotero could validate type for existing item types before writing to Extra. (I don't think that's the right, FWIW, so woudl pick one of the first two)
Zotero shouldn't currently be storing item.type in Extra at all, specifically because it overrides the CSL item type:
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/93d3a4be7a9ce91a81df5164d974b3d916984fc1/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/data/item.js#L4450-L4460
That redirects me to http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/cbs/DB=2.1/SRCH?IKT=12&TRM=245249516
Which Firefox recognizes (as it should) as "Library Catalog (PICA)"
When I save the item, it imports (otherwise fine) with
Type: Texte remanié de
in ExtraIIRC, Sudoc has started using a different URL schema in Chrome, so the target may not match there (see https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/2202 )
(edit: can't say why the linked code isn't working, but it isn't for me or the OP)