Teaching Zotero the right item type (or making Aeon a magazine...)
hello,
when i save a piece from Aeon it's automatically saved as a web page, rather than as a magazine, and the same goes for many other such magazines. Is there a way to "teach" Zotero what type of source it is, so next time it will automatically be categorized appropriately?
when i save a piece from Aeon it's automatically saved as a web page, rather than as a magazine, and the same goes for many other such magazines. Is there a way to "teach" Zotero what type of source it is, so next time it will automatically be categorized appropriately?
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This would require a change to Zotero’s translator for the page.
it is categorized simply as a webpage, but it's a magazine piece.
I've read Aeon essays but never found an opportunity to cite one. If I did, I'd cite as a webpage. I don't believe that citing this as a webpage is demoting Aeon to a lower-class status; if that is your concern.
basically, i'm asking if i can change it so at least in my libraries certain domains will be classified as i see them.
The issue here is whether the cite is providing enough metadata for Zotero to be able to determine the item type. I’m not at a computer to be able to check those pages at the moment, but perhaps one of the volunteers who writes the Zotero webpage translators can take a look.
It's very easy to quickly change the item type for imported items as part of your general checking/cleaning of the item data after import (a step I suggest you always take—for example, to convert the title of the Atlantic article you linked to sentence case), so it's not that big a deal. For most styles, it won't really make a difference whether the item is stored as a Magazine Article or Web Page in any event.