I am using 4.0.29.10. There is no option to cite a webpage in the dropdown menu when I press the 'new item' button? I am guessing there must be some way to put in a webpage citation?
The reasoning I get from the section is that "the Web Page item type is not included in the “New Item” menu" because " it's almost always better to visit a webpage in your browser and use the “Save to Zotero” button".
I assume, that there is some kind of issue with people adding other kinds of sources (newspaper articles? online papers?) as web pages? And the "Save to Zotero" omits that issue? But why, when I deliberately want to add a web site as a source (because it does not fall into any other category) it is not an option out of the box. Instead I need to use the workaround described in that section, to find the category "Web Page" that is, in fact, included.
So I do not understand the necessity for using this way. I'd like to know what problem is solved by deliberately forcing this extra step, by adding this complication that needs to be looked up and explained in an extra section.
Maybe I just don't understand why it is almost always better to visit a webpage in my browser and use the "Save to Zotero" button. Might be because I am really used to edit entries myself.
The whole section explains this. The very first sentence is "Zotero is designed to help you avoid manual entry whenever possible." Why would you waste time typing in lots of individual metadata fields by hand and manually downloading files instead of clicking one button in your browser toolbar?
One-click saving of high-quality metadata is pretty much the defining feature of Zotero, so if you're not using that, read through Adding Items to Zotero to better understand how Zotero is meant to be used.
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A webpage option may be added at some point with additional guidance, but it's very rarely what you want to do.
I assume, that there is some kind of issue with people adding other kinds of sources (newspaper articles? online papers?) as web pages? And the "Save to Zotero" omits that issue? But why, when I deliberately want to add a web site as a source (because it does not fall into any other category) it is not an option out of the box. Instead I need to use the workaround described in that section, to find the category "Web Page" that is, in fact, included.
So I do not understand the necessity for using this way. I'd like to know what problem is solved by deliberately forcing this extra step, by adding this complication that needs to be looked up and explained in an extra section.
Maybe I just don't understand why it is almost always better to visit a webpage in my browser and use the "Save to Zotero" button. Might be because I am really used to edit entries myself.
One-click saving of high-quality metadata is pretty much the defining feature of Zotero, so if you're not using that, read through Adding Items to Zotero to better understand how Zotero is meant to be used.