Upgrade StorageTwo bibliography formatting problems with Pubmed citations
I am using Zotero version 1.5-sync3.5
1. There are no "." in the abbreviated journal name -- see this post http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3139/pubmed-issues-with-journal-abbreviations/
2. I do not know if this is possible. I would like to format the pages as ###-### not as ###-#/###-## eg. 123-126 not as 123-6 as it comes from pubmed.
1. There are no "." in the abbreviated journal name -- see this post http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3139/pubmed-issues-with-journal-abbreviations/
2. I do not know if this is possible. I would like to format the pages as ###-### not as ###-#/###-## eg. 123-126 not as 123-6 as it comes from pubmed.
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I do think however that as Pubmed keeps popping up as the main culprit with regard to this page-numbering issue, that it might be useful to just change the Pubmed-translator to correct the numbering, at least in the short run. Trevor notes that "This would only be advisable if we were confident that the second number in a series of page numbers should be at least as many digits as the first number.". In my experience, that always has been the case though with the papers in Pubmed (i.e. I've never seen a journal paper that spanned multiple issues).
P.S. After some digging on the PubMed website I did find a list of examples of how the pages-XML-element can be filled:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/licensee/elements_descriptions.html#pagination
I really liked pulling the data from "<ISOAbbreviation> </ISOAbbreviation>" in pubmed XML as suggested by Rintze in the previous thread.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3513/bugs-with-pubmed-central-translator/?Focus=16752#Comment_16752
Apparently there are just some papers missing citation.Article.Journal.ISOAbbreviation , so the translator was changed to only look for citation.MedlineJournalInfo.MedlineTA.
As periods are easier to remove than to add, and as people seem to prefer the version with periods, could the NCBI Pubmed be changed to first select the abbreviated journal name (with periods) from citation.Article.Journal.ISOAbbreviation, and only when that fails, fall back to citation.MedlineJournalInfo.MedlineTA?
1)
http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/web/NCBI PubMed abbreviations.patch
This patch preferentially takes the abbreviation title from citation.Article.Journal.ISOAbbreviation. Only when absent, the value from citation.MedlineJournalInfo.MedlineTA is taken.
2)
http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/web/NCBI PubMed pagination.patch
This patch converts abbreviated page numbers (e.g. "112-9") to full page numbers ("112-119"). It can handle all the examples listed at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/licensee/elements_descriptions.html#pagination
edit: see also the later patch here: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4833/problems-with-pubmed-site-translators/?Focus=29546#Comment_29546