Upgrade StorageCitation URL Always Missing... anyway to try to fill it in automatically?
I import the citations via some URL, usually based off a Google Scholar or PubMed link. 99.9% of the time the URL field is blank, which is highly annoying because if people ever intend to actually look at the sources they'll need a URL.
Even if it's not "the" perfect source URL (i.e. even if it goes to a ScienceDirect, JSTOR, Google Scholar, or other secondary website which links to or describes the paper) I would really like for there to be SOME link associated with all of my citations.
Of course, one solution is to manually update this field for all existing and future references. However, that slows down an otherwise quick, automated import of citation data. Is there anyway to make Zotero try to automatically populate the URL field based on the source of the citation being imported or by some other means?
Even if it's not "the" perfect source URL (i.e. even if it goes to a ScienceDirect, JSTOR, Google Scholar, or other secondary website which links to or describes the paper) I would really like for there to be SOME link associated with all of my citations.
Of course, one solution is to manually update this field for all existing and future references. However, that slows down an otherwise quick, automated import of citation data. Is there anyway to make Zotero try to automatically populate the URL field based on the source of the citation being imported or by some other means?
Zotero will save the URL when you're getting the item from a full text source like JSTOR and Sciencedirect. It will also include URLs when saving from Google Scholar.
It will _not_, however, include URLs from pubmed, which does not host article texts, so would not actually be a link to a source. Pubmed articles are saved, however, with a pubmed ID and, where available, a DOI. The former allows you to quickly get to a pubmed article, the latter to the authoritative version of the article online via a DOI resolver. Pubmed also attaches a link to the pubmed page that you can use from Zotero--it's an attached item though, not a URL.
The rationale behind all of this is that it helps Zotero generate correct citations. A citation should not include a URL to a page that doesn't actually host the article/book (that's why there are also no URLs for Amazon books or library catalogs).
There's no way to change since on your side, no.
This works for me with APA 6th edition, a journal article with URL and no DOI entered in Zotero, and "Include URLs..." option checked in Zotero preferences under Cite -> Styles.
If you replied to a forum post by e-mail, that doesn't work. That seems quite unlikely. Could you say exactly what you're unchecking?
I hope that I did this correctly. LMK.
Secondly, we were not importing URLs from ERIC, because ERIC is generally a catalog for papers that are hosted elsewhere. I do see that some papers are hosted on ERIC, so I fixed this on our end. The URL will now be importing for papers that can be downloaded directly from ERIC.
You can update your translators via Preferences -> General -> Update Now
However, why does Zotero not recognize the Add-In in Word? It still says, "The Microsoft Add-In is currently not installed."
Edit: provide a URL where this is not the case if it's still not working
Please start a new thread for your other issue and include exact steps you are taking to trigger the error message and the exact text of the message (don't translate if it's in another language).