Importing citation from stack exchange website

Smitty_W

I'm trying to cite an answer from a stack exchange website. If I go to, say, this https://mathoverflow.net/a/418958 and click Cite, I get an output in BibTex format which I can copy. Is there an easy way of adding this information to Zotero? I tried "Import from Clipboard", but that doesn't include some information that is present in the BibTex code (like the date). I can modify it by hand, but having a way to automate this would be very helpful.

bwiernik

Just clicking the Save to Zotero button in your browser toolbar works well on the Overflow pages typically

adamsmith

But that wouldn't work for a specific answer, right? I kind of like the idea of having the answers citable individually. Some overflow answers are quite influential, after all.
I don't know why they don't put the date in the bibtex in a better format. And should we import the answers as "webpage" or "forum post"?

bwiernik

Here two examples of how I entered posts that I cite fairly often.
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2205533/items/ANBWECVZ
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2205533/items/N37GTSPG

The BibTeX supplied looks to have the date stored as 'version:' in the NOTE field.

@MISC {418958,
TITLE = {Steepest descent integration in several dimensions},
AUTHOR = {Jorge Zuniga (https://mathoverflow.net/users/141375/jorge-zuniga)},
HOWPUBLISHED = {MathOverflow},
NOTE = {URL:https://mathoverflow.net/q/418958 (version: 2022-03-27)},
EPRINT = {https://mathoverflow.net/q/418958},
URL = {https://mathoverflow.net/q/418958}
}