Style Error: [McGill Legal Citation 7th Edition]

Condosky
I just installed the newest version of standalone zotero 4.0.17 and the Safari plug-in. The first thing I did was test the citation functionality with Microsoft Word, it worked when the default styles were selected. (I could simply drag and drop into word).

But when I deleted all the other styles and installed the McGill 7th Edition .csl, that feature no longer worked. Now, when I try to drag and drop into word, I get a "stop" style emoticon, so I physically cannot drop it into word.

Anyone have a solution?
  • Condosky
    edited February 20, 2014
    Also, is there another way to select one citation style without having to delete all the other one's? As of right now, I only have McGill, because otherwise, all the others were check marked and I couldn't un-check or pick a default.


    P.S: I'm using the Mac version
  • adamsmith
    you're looking in the wrong place to pick a style for drag&drop: You want to set it as the "Default Output format" under "Export", not under styles. That's also why drag&drop isn't working anymore: you deleted the selected style.

    Generally, though, I'd recommend using the Word plugin rather than drag&drop
  • Condosky
    Got it, thank you! How about the PDF's, I keep getting an X whenever I pick an article via safari, even though I downloaded the newest pdftotext & pdfinfo
  • Condosky
    So It's only saving "snapshot" Not "full text PDF", even though the page i'm in has the PDF open.
  • adamsmith
    URL?
    (not related to pdfinfo/pdftotext, btw.—those are just for indexing)
  • Condosky
    I just downloaded them via the "search" tab in preferences, thought they would be relevant.

    The URL won't work for you since you have to be logged in to the university portal to access it, but for example cases on CanLii also don't work.

    https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2014/2014scc13/2014scc13.pdf

    Although, the above case is different, it won't even allow me to click on the Zotero safari-add-on, whereas the rest of the 'privileged' documents, I can click the "Z" but only the snapshot saves, not the PDF.
  • adamsmith
    I believe I have access to CanLii - what's an example of a URL where you don't get the PDF? You never get the URL bar icon for PDFs directly
  • Condosky
    edited February 20, 2014
    CanLii you will have access to, and that one I can't even click the "Z" at all, is that normal?

    never mind I just realized what you meant by "directly"... so how do I properly add a PDF to my Zotero, is that not possible?
  • Condosky
    edited February 20, 2014
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  • adamsmith
    PDFs won't download for some sites - notably EBSCO and Proquest - when you're both using a proxy and using Zotero Standalone.

    For PDFs, you can just save them to your HD and drag to Zotero or you can drag the URL to Zotero (I believe that should work on Safari, though not 100% sure about that). But for CanLii specifically, you should just go through the html page: http://canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2014/2014scc13/2014scc13.html which will attach the PDF when you click the URL bar icon.
  • Condosky
    That is so strange, the Canlii link you posted, I get to see a symbol of a scale, and I do get the PDF because it knows it's a case (still gets the citation wrong but that's fine).

    But when I go to the same link myself, it's a normal symbol of a paper, and I don't get the PDF. I believe the latter instance I am accessing the website using https, could that be it? That is the only difference I can see between the two addresses
  • Condosky
    And It looks like it doesn't work with Quicklaw or Westlaw
  • adamsmith
    yes, it's the https - that was a bug no one ever noticed, not sure why not. I'll fix that in a minute and let you know.
  • Condosky
    Thank you, if you could remove this dependancy on https it would be great. I can't use Zotero at all with Quicklaw or Westlaw because I can't opt out of being in https.
  • adamsmith
    CanLii will now work with https site - udpate your translators by clicking "update now" in the general tab of the Zotero preferences, restart Zotero and Safari and you should be fine. Westlaw and Quicklaw aren't supported by Zotero. There is simply no usable data on those sites that Zotero could scrape. Law databases are pretty much unique among all academic databases in that.
  • Condosky
    CanLii working as promised, thank you for fixing it so quickly

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