Suppressing 'retrieved' metadata and url

I'm using Zotpress to get my (quite long) bibliography onto a WordPress wiki. It all works beautifully, but I have one issue that I cannot figure out. Right now I'm using the author-date citation style. For citation of newspaper articles I sometimes get this:

Houses Which Must Come Down. (1880, January 20). New York Times, p. 2. New York, N.Y., United States. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/93829150/abstract/36C16BB8B6CC4553PQ/19?accountid=xxxx

And sometimes this:

Disorderly Policemen.: Two Patrolmen Shooting at Each Other in a Station-House. (1882, September 19). New York Times, p. 8. New York, N.Y., United States.

I really do not want all this all the 'retrieved from' stuff in the first example for a lot of reasons, not least being the fact that my account id number is included. I would like to just strip such metadata from every entry.

So my question: do I have to do this manually, go to each record and delete the url? Because I've got over three hundred citations with this issue, and that would take a major time investment.

Thanks for whatever direction you can provide.
  • When working with ZotPress, I don't see an alternative, unfortunately. Zotero, with default settings, wouldn't display that URL (Zotero doesn't display URLs of articles with page ranges/numbers).

    You could use MLA style if that's an option -- URLs are not included in MLA citations.
  • Thanks for the quick reply. I'll try to make things work with MLA style. Zotpress is such a help, I can't just give it up.

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