IEEE citation style standardisation

alex_ai
Hello people and a happy new 2017!

I am using the IEEE citation guide for the manual and as I can see, Zotero does not fully comfort with the standardisation when it implements the reference into the document. From what I have seen this is a general problem with the IEEE in the Zotero guide:
a)It does not include the number of pages as asked by IEEE (see link below)
b)It does not include the type of medium and the web page when the source is a blog article or another online source.

https://www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecitationref.pdf

Does anyone know how to fix this bug?

Thanks in Advance.
  • adamsmith
    I get page numbers wherever relevant (e.g. here:)
    [1] I. Mares, “Firms and the welfare state: When, why, and how does social policy matter to employers?,” in Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage, P. A. Hall and D. Soskice, Eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 184–213.

    and the medium for webpages:
    [1] “CSL search by example,” Citation Style Editor, 2012. [Online]. Available: http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/. [Accessed: 15-Dec-2012].

    Could you provide examples for what you're talking about?
  • alex_ai
    Hi again

    a. I want to cite this book:
    http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387233062

    This is what I get by setting the IEEE style in the Zotero
    N. Chawla and K.K. Chawla, Metal Matrix Composites. Berlin: Springer, 2005.

    instead of
    N. Chawla and K.K. Chawla, Metal Matrix Composites. Berlin: Springer, 2005, p. 401.

    b. I want to cite this particular blog page.
    http://alsicthermalmanagement.blogspot.ch/2010/05/igbt-thermal-management.html

    This is what I get from IEEE style:
    M. Occhionero, “IGBT Thermal Management,” AlSiC Thermal Management Solutions, May-2010.

    According to IEEE style rules as above, it should had been
    M. Occhionero, May 2010, AlSiC Thermal Management Solutions, Blog. Available: http://alsicthermalmanagement.blogspot.ch/2010/05/igbt-thermal-management.html

    (as dictated by J. K. Author. (year, month day),Title, (edition) [Type of medium].
    Available: http://www.(URL)

    ps.It goes without saying that I have included all needed information in the Zotero, such as book page or that the website is a blog etc etc.

  • adamsmith
    I can look at blog posts, but for the book -- individual pages aren't typically cited for books (see. [1] and [6] in the example document) nor is there a field you could add the page number for a book to in Zotero (Num. of pages is the total number of pages of a book): the concept doesn't really make sense.

    If you want to point to a specific page or page range in a book, add it to the in-text citation (see page 7 in the example document).
  • alex_ai
    Thanks a lot for the help; I would appreciate on any updates with regard to blog posts or websites in general.
  • adamsmith
    if you enter the blogpost as a website, it should come out fine already, FWIW.
  • alex_ai
    Yep, it works now. Thanks a lot!
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