Warning for incomplete Metadata

knaeble · November 10, 2019

Is there a way to get a warning for all items that have incomplete metadata for a certain citestyle? I noticed that I have e.g. journal articles with the year missing. Citing in that way would not be APA compliant. An automatic warning that required fields are missing would make imporing a lot easier. Am I overlooking something?

dstillman · November 10, 2019

There's an old thread on this, with some explanation of why it's not really feasible to do in any sort of comprehensive manner, here:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/25958/see-what-fields-need-filling-to-create-a-complete-citation

You can post there with any follow-up questions.

DWL-SDCA · November 10, 2019

@knaeble As insurance against not noticing missing key metadata items on import; I use the Zotero stacked-view and have "year" and "language" included with the columnar display. It is immediately evident at a glance when these key fields are empty.

emilianoeheyns · November 11, 2019

A bit of a hack, but BBT BibLaTeX exports have an optional quality report, which will mark items with missing data. It's pretty rudimentary though.