Reference Type: Lecture Notes / Online Figure-Image NOT AVAILABLE
I would like to make a reference to lecture notes (PDF format) & some online Figures/Images I found.
There seem to be no such option available in the drop down list of "ITEM TYPE" in Zotero.
Is there a way of amending it manually, or is it a closed list?
If it is closed, please consider adding additional reference types with the next release.
Also, when I save an item from the Current page (being PDF), it does not allow me to add an author, and when I use this reference in word (Harvard Style), it comes up as ANON...
Why is that?
Any help will be much appreciated!
There seem to be no such option available in the drop down list of "ITEM TYPE" in Zotero.
Is there a way of amending it manually, or is it a closed list?
If it is closed, please consider adding additional reference types with the next release.
Also, when I save an item from the Current page (being PDF), it does not allow me to add an author, and when I use this reference in word (Harvard Style), it comes up as ANON...
Why is that?
Any help will be much appreciated!
It's important to view item types as biographical categories, not as full descriptions. E.g. lecture notes, in the bibliographical sense, are manuscripts (i.e. something written but not formally published). Online images are, depending on context, either images or websites.
For your second issue, you need to attach the pdf to an item - in many cases that works using right-click --> retrieve metadata, otherwise right-click --> "Create Parent item..."
(edit: please take it easy on the all caps - _underlining_ or using italics in html (<i> </i>) are perfectly fine for emphasis).
I think you should consider adding "Lecture Notes" as people ask questions about it online, and there are some guides of how to use such reference on the university websites:
http://libguides.is.uwa.edu.au/content.php?pid=43218&sid=358237
I'll be happy for "Online Images" to appear as additional reference type, even if they are variations of website referencing.
I would like, and in fact I need to be able to make a distinction between Web & Online Image reference in my Thesis, as per suggestion from my supervisor.
Listen to the users is all I suggest :)
Cheers
Not sure what you mean by "a distinction between Web & Online Image reference". Can you provide a specific example of the respective form the cites you want the style to produce?
Having content in the URL field distinguishes between online and offline images/artworks. If need by styles can treat items with or w/o URL entirely different.
This makes sense. Is there any documentation on the recommended item types to use in each case?
Then some form of Wiki that suggest an item type if it's not one of your standard types, would be useful, no? Including instructions how to add, say a map scale, in the extra field.