Importing entry from Wiley InterScience

Garth Ilsley
If I import this entry:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/113344092/ABSTRACT (after using "Download Citation" button on the web page)
Zotero seems to import a single author, with the surname and first name being concatenated names of the actual author names. It works fine from Pubmed.

A secondary issue is that these entries contain accented characters. If I export this to BibTeX, the encoding seems to be ISO-8859-1. Since the default on my distribution of Linux is UTF-8, it means I have to convert the file using iconv for it to be interpreted correctly in general. Is it possible/should it be possible for Zotero to export in UTF-8?
  • sean
    edited June 28, 2007
    Re: import, it looks like Wiley is not generating properly formatted Refer/BibIX records. They're putting all authors on a single %A line instead of each on its own line as the specification requires.
  • Garth Ilsley
    Thanks. That's a bit frustrating, but that is the nature of the web. It looks like I will have to change the way I work. Either I will need to review each import carefully, or start importing from a single source like PubMed. The latter will probably be the most convenient.

    In the future, perhaps Zotero will be able to warn me when an import is suspicious - non-standard formats etc? It may also be useful to have the option to import automatically from a trusted source (e.g. PubMed) even though the import button is clicked on a third-party web page (e.g. Wiley).

    (I assume the export in UTF-8 doesn't make sense for some reason relating to BibTeX support of Unicode, although UTF-8 does seem to work for me.)

    Thanks for the excellent tool.

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