[internet] inserted to REF row
Hello.
I have been a Zotero user for years. I recently prepared a paper for Brain journal and I noticed that a lot of the references have "[internet]" and then "cited from...." added to the reference row, after the journal. I tried to change the REF style, but it was still there. Apparently it is only a Zotero problem, since endnote got this right. It's a good thing I checked before submitting the manuscript... I suggest that every Zotero user double checks their references. What I eventually did was erasing the "URL" and "accessed" fields from all of the Zotero items.
This was aggravating... I'm afraid I'm not gonna work with Zotero anymore. Switched to Endnote.
I have been a Zotero user for years. I recently prepared a paper for Brain journal and I noticed that a lot of the references have "[internet]" and then "cited from...." added to the reference row, after the journal. I tried to change the REF style, but it was still there. Apparently it is only a Zotero problem, since endnote got this right. It's a good thing I checked before submitting the manuscript... I suggest that every Zotero user double checks their references. What I eventually did was erasing the "URL" and "accessed" fields from all of the Zotero items.
This was aggravating... I'm afraid I'm not gonna work with Zotero anymore. Switched to Endnote.
If you have page numbers, you can prevent Zotero from including a URL at all by checking the box in the Cite pane of Zotero preferences.
Generally, very little about using Zotero requires any manual labor, so if you are doing something that is taking a lot of steps, you are probably not doing it in the intended way. It is always better to ask a question here before spending a lot of time on something.
It's not a question of style. I tried several...
Please also confirm what version number of Zotero you are using.
This is the item. What code? I exported as you requested but can't copy here (except for the bibliography item. Is that what you meant?
Yeah, so this happens because these are conference papers. Not sure how you import them, though. If imported from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7319910/ , this doesn't get a URL in Zotero, which means you don't get it in the reference list. Did you import the references from Endnote?
As adamsmith mentioned, the issue here is that this item is a conference paper, not a journal article. The style needs to be adjusted. I've made a pull request for that change, and you can download that style file from here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/styles/2915479b4aafe5c7a8cadaebfcc42459bdb0ba58/brain.csl
Thanks for reporting the style issue.
Please believe me that this is an issue with the programming of styles (further references to Zotero versus Endnote really aren’t needed; we do understand what is happening).
Here is a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/69wu0nss7cp6c0w/Brain_screenshot.png?dl=0
Same thing with Molecular Brain, Behavioral and Brain Functions, and others. I don't think this is expected behavior on the repository webpage, but I may be totally wrong. Sorry, if I am hijacking this thread.
I assume that this is only for styles (like Brain) that on occasion might display a URL (for webpages or online journal articles according NLM's uniform requirements style), but not other styles?
I checked that and that didn't appear to be true, so I am confused by the difference between, say, Brain and Nature, even though both can show URLs depending on item type according to their styles.
edit: I realize that this is just about the behavior of only the repository webpage, and is not important at all, so ignore at will.
<else-if type="webpage" variable="URL" match="all">
For Brain and many other styles, URLs are always printed when they're in the data. However, by default (with "include URLs" unchecked) Zotero treats articles with pages as if they don't have a URL even if they don't. That last bit is different on the repository, not for particularly strong reasons, but simply because it hasn't been implemented.
Looking at Nature's citation style at https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors/formatting-guide
"References to web-only journals should give authors, article title and journal name as above, followed by URL in full - or DOI if known - and the year of publication in parentheses."
Looking at Brain, they do not include URLs on their webpage on any of the examples they give (https://academic.oup.com/brain/pages/General_Instructions).
They further refer to NLM's uniform requirements style for more details, and even there, standard journal articles (item 1) get no URLs: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
Now, "Journal article on the internet" (item 36) has URLs. But that doesn't even apply to "published on the Internet ahead of the print version" (item 18) and the other optionals cited there. But then, Nature asks for URLs for online-only articles, as I cited above. In practice, neither journal uses them much at all.
Until I see it, considering that endnote does not generate such a format, I have to conclude that Zotero is a risky citation manager to use if I want to publish in respected journals... Please people send me one example.
Thanks.
Here are search results showing numerous examples of internet-based sources with the [Internet] label:
https://academic.oup.com/brain/search-results?page=1&q="[internet]"&fl_SiteID=5367&SearchSourceType=1&allJournals=1
And several specific papers:
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article-abstract/141/2/e11/4683985?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/139/9/2441/1744887?searchresult=1
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/138/7/2059/254068?searchresult=1
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/136/6/1687/621356?searchresult=1
(In general, I think you are worrying a bit too much here. Brain and most other biomedical journals are not particularly concerned about citation formatting; they have quite a bit of variation in their published articles. Any minor deviations that the publisher does want to change will be corrected by the typesetters. My experience with biology and neuroscience journals is that they really don’t care much about the specific citation style used in submissions. The inlcusion of "[Internet]" in particular is something that the typesetter will just delete if the publisher does not want it there.)