DOIs for Reports and other item types
DOIs for reports have been mentioned before:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/35088/doi-translator-or-something-else-is-not-working-properly-bugid-1710108628/
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/26097/citing-society-of-automotive-engineers-technical-papers/
Do we have an ETA for Zotero 4.2? I am starting to miss having a DOI field for reports. For example:
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/energy/world-energy-outlook-2014_weo-2014-en
If possible, I would say add DOIs for all item types. I have come across conference papers and book chapters with DOIs.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/35088/doi-translator-or-something-else-is-not-working-properly-bugid-1710108628/
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/26097/citing-society-of-automotive-engineers-technical-papers/
Do we have an ETA for Zotero 4.2? I am starting to miss having a DOI field for reports. For example:
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/energy/world-energy-outlook-2014_weo-2014-en
If possible, I would say add DOIs for all item types. I have come across conference papers and book chapters with DOIs.
https://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/issues/1
No ETA, though, unfortunately. Not this year.
in extra (and citation styles would likely pick that up), but I don't want to promise that we'll actually migrate that.
IEA. 2014. World Energy Outlook 2014. Paris, France: International Energy Agency. doi:10.1787/weo-2014-en.
So, what else can the extra field be used for? I have never thought of it before.
For example, a book chapter Extra field might look like this for me:
Citations: 00102
Chapter: 4
WOS: 10022391102021
{:DOI: 10.abcdef12345}
The Extra field is intended for just that, extra data. PMIDs and PMCIDs are stored there. Because of the way MLZ works, the citation processor can pull out official CSL variables that are wrapped in the {:variable: } structure. When Zotero fields are updated with the release of 4.2, I will have to move these variables to their actual locations, but, for now, that is better than having to add DOIs to references manually.
I noticed that Zotero Scholar Citations (ZSC) is adding the citation count on the same line as some other information coming from the database that was used to create the item. For example, the Extra field for one of my items is:
00784 PMID: 17332409
If I insert a line feed after the 00784, would that be okay and not break ZSC's ability to update the citation count? In other words, is ZSC's information actually a field in itself and it does not matter where or how it is placed inside the Extra field?
I left a review+note for ZSC:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zotero-scholar-citations/reviews/
I've just submitted a new 1.8.8 version of the Zotero Scholar Citations to addons.mozilla.org, it should become available soon. Based on your suggestions, I've implemented the following behaviour (assume 00000 is the old citations and 12345 is the new citations):
"" -> "12345"
"00000" -> "12345"
"PMID: 17332409" -> 12345
PMID: 17332409"
"00000 PMID: 17332409" -> "12345
PMID: 17332409"
"00000PMID: 17332409" -> "12345
PMID: 17332409"
"00000
PMID: 17332409" -> "12345
PMID: 17332409"
The rationale is:
- Support the multiline format for storing multiple variables in the Extra field.
- Do not make breaking format changes requiring an update of the whole library. This is especially important for users who don't have any other data in the Extra field except for the number of citations.
- Automatically migrate from the previous format with just a space (or multiple spaces) between the number of citations and other data to the new format.
Cheers,
Anton
bwiernik, thanks for the branch and submitting the pull request.