Query re global changes in Titles and abbreviations for months
I am editing endnotes according to the style my publisher wants and need to make changes in certain frequently used titles, e.g., The New York Times to New York Times or NYT
Also I want to change December to Dec. etc. and make that consistent across dozens, hundreds probably of endnote citations.
Is there a way to do this with some global find and replace command or must I do it note by note?
Also I want to change December to Dec. etc. and make that consistent across dozens, hundreds probably of endnote citations.
Is there a way to do this with some global find and replace command or must I do it note by note?
To use abbreviations for certain names, you may(!) be able to use the abbreviations plugin, but I don't know any details about this and it's still in alpha or early beta or so:
http://citationstylist.org/abbreviations-for-zotero/
It's not currently possible to batch-edit Zotero entries, though it likely will be in the near future.
I'm not sure I want to risk the citation abbreviations.
When do you expect an upgrade that can handle batch editing of entries?
Last I heard, batch-editing was planned for Zotero 3.5 due out late this fall, but I'm not 100% about the status of that (the batch editing part - I'm pretty sure 3.5 will be out in November bc of compatibility issues).
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
Specifically for months:
Find all instances of
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
(I think there are only two) and change them to
<date-part name="month" suffix=" " form="short"/>
chicago-fullnote-bibliography-no-ibid.csl
and I found the two "date-part ..." strings you describe and replaced them with the new string.
I went in and out of Firefox and started a new word document.
No dice. The months still come up "December" etc.
Thanks
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
I like notepad++
I believe Dan likes jEdit
both are free and open source.
Zotero's built-in editor doesn't help here, because it doesn't allow you to save styles - so even if you use that you still need to use a text editor to save the style as .csl.
The editor that comes with the visual editor
http://steveridout.com/csl/visualEditor/
is quite nice and that has a one-click save option.
http://www.marco.org/2012/08/10/next-text-editor for a review). It's a cross-platform, free to evaluate, commercial editor.
adamsmith was right, though—I use jEdit personally and have recommended it before. But most Mac and Windows users don't need to install Java these days, so I think native programs (e.g., TextWrangler for OS X, Notepad++ for Windows) are generally better to recommend.
That said, to have a "search and replace" batch edit function for future versions of Zotero would be wonderful.
thanks
If the style is not configured to use short titles for journals, the list will be empty. The Nature style seems to use short titles -- but note that the processor has to "see" the short-form entries to add them to the list, so for Nature (and other author-date or numeric styles) you'll need to include a bibliography to generate the listing.