Date Added Being used by Zotero in Bibliographies
Version: 3.0b, however looking back at my list of references I have created recently, the problem was in 2.1 as well.
I select a title from my library. Right click on it. Select "Create Bibliography from selected item." Then copy to clipboard. (I used Nature Journal in this case, but the problem is with many of the formats.)
My result:
1.Tucker, J.W., Robinson, W.D. & Grubb, T. INFLUENCE OF SEASON AND FREQUENCY OF FIRE ON HENSLOW’S SPARROWS (AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII) WINTERING ON GULF COAST PITCHER PLANT BOGS. The Auk 120, 96-106 (2011).
now from the Harvard author date format:
Tucker, J.W., Robinson, W.D. & Grubb, T., 2011. INFLUENCE OF SEASON AND FREQUENCY OF FIRE ON HENSLOW’S SPARROWS (AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII) WINTERING ON GULF COAST PITCHER PLANT BOGS. The Auk, 120(1), pp.96-106.
The problem here is that this article was published in 2003:
The Auk 120(1):96-106. 2003
In the info tab in Zotero the date is listed:
2011/09/13 2003.
Please help! Thank you very very much for your product. It saves poor grad students like me a lot of money. When I am a famous scientist I will make huge donations to you!
-AG
I select a title from my library. Right click on it. Select "Create Bibliography from selected item." Then copy to clipboard. (I used Nature Journal in this case, but the problem is with many of the formats.)
My result:
1.Tucker, J.W., Robinson, W.D. & Grubb, T. INFLUENCE OF SEASON AND FREQUENCY OF FIRE ON HENSLOW’S SPARROWS (AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII) WINTERING ON GULF COAST PITCHER PLANT BOGS. The Auk 120, 96-106 (2011).
now from the Harvard author date format:
Tucker, J.W., Robinson, W.D. & Grubb, T., 2011. INFLUENCE OF SEASON AND FREQUENCY OF FIRE ON HENSLOW’S SPARROWS (AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII) WINTERING ON GULF COAST PITCHER PLANT BOGS. The Auk, 120(1), pp.96-106.
The problem here is that this article was published in 2003:
The Auk 120(1):96-106. 2003
In the info tab in Zotero the date is listed:
2011/09/13 2003.
Please help! Thank you very very much for your product. It saves poor grad students like me a lot of money. When I am a famous scientist I will make huge donations to you!
-AG
The immediate solution is to just delete 2011/
If you remember where you got that article from we might be able to do something about that more generally - all those capitals don't look good, either.
The all caps is something they do. To correct the all caps, right-click on the title field in Zotero and select title case (or better yet, select lower case and manually transform to sentence case - only capitalize beginning of sentences and proper nouns).
TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing and Testing Criteria and Indicators for an Effective Information System in the Forest Sector
AU - Garg, R.K.
AU - Das, J.K.
AU - Gera, M.
Y1 - 2006/09/01
PY - 2006
DA - 2006/09/01
N1 - doi: 10.1505/ifor.8.3.307
DO - 10.1505/ifor.8.3.307
T2 - International Forestry Review
JF - International Forestry Review
JO - International Forestry Review
SP - 307
EP - 328
VL - 8
IS - 3
PB - Commonwealth Forestry Association
SN - 1465-5489
M3 - doi: 10.1505/ifor.8.3.307
UR - http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1505/ifor.8.3.307
Y2 - 2011/09/13
ER -
this looks good to me - I believe Y2 is commonly used for the access date and Zotero's RIS translator shouldn't overwrite it. Avram?
Tucker Jr, J.W., Robinson, W.D. & Grubb, T. Influence of season and frequency of fire on Henslow’s Sparrows (Ammodramus henslowii) wintering on Gulf Coast pitcher plant bogs. The Auk 120, 96-106 (2003).
Which is the correct result... This should do for me, but it seems a problem none the less. Thanks for your help. If you figure out a solution for BioOne let me know! Thanks again.
-AG
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tags around the species name to get proper italics in the citation output.As for the Y2 field, we're currently appending it to the date, if present. There's no documentation on this, and access date isn't mentioned in the RIS spec. I'd fix this in the site-specific translator, but here we're importing RIS directly. Do you think this is worth changing in general?
If we're skeptical about this - e.g. because it could also be original date of publication (the RIS spec description is "secondary date") I'd prefer to not parse it at all to appending it to the publication date (which, as in this case, creates nonsensical date-fields).