Podcast date?
Hi,
I am currently studying Information Security and part of my coursework involves listening to lots of Podcasts.
I have noticed that the Podcast type does not have a date field - is it possible to add fields manually, or change the Podcast type so that it has a date field?
Apologies if I am being stupid, I haven't been using the software very long.
I am currently studying Information Security and part of my coursework involves listening to lots of Podcasts.
I have noticed that the Podcast type does not have a date field - is it possible to add fields manually, or change the Podcast type so that it has a date field?
Apologies if I am being stupid, I haven't been using the software very long.
You can add the date in the Extra field, but it will not appear in the Year column in the main Zotero pane (which I find to be very important), citation or bibliography. (The Retrieved date, if any, will appear in the bibliography.)
Zotero team, please add a date field in the Podcast form, so podcasts may be cited properly.
What is the reasoning behind not showing the year in the Year column in the main page? This is something that's very important in the sorting I do, which I think is probably pretty basic to everyone.
Surfacing another column to display the little-used Extra field doesn't make sense to me. Real estate is tight already in the main pane.
Or do you mean you intend to add a Date field for podcasts that will be derived from the Extra field???
They'll come reasonably soon, hopefully, and then podcast will have a date field and any date you have in extra will automatically be moved there
For APA 7th, there are several other things lacking, like the inclusion of the role (Host) or (Hosts) after the listing of names, and a field for Type (this can be added using the field File type or adding Type in extra). Also, the Series title field is not included in the reference list entry, making this element type more suited to podcast series rather than episodes. And for podcast series, it would be nice to have an additional role of Producer, and a new field for Production company.
Issued: 2010-10-31/2015-10-31
For entering podcast data to fit APA style, see
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2205533/test_items_library/collections/MR2N872S/items/HWIMSJBJ/item-details
And
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2205533/test_items_library/collections/MR2N872S/items/HYEYQKKT/item-details
It’s an oversight that Podcast doesn’t have a Date field. That will be fixed in a future version of Zotero.
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/podcast-references (looks like an update from APA 6th)
Thank you for your efforts, I'm looking forward to the Date field, and hopefully more improvements to this element type.
That doesn’t really make sense to me—“present” would mean very different things depending on when the paper is read, when it was initially drafted versus revised versus published, etc. Better to just use a proper date for when the material was consulted.
With Zotero 7 this does not seem to work anymore (I'm on 7.0.2, and entering that field, has no effect on the displayed "Year" field in the list view). I'm entering things in the same format as I have for past entries (done on Zotero <7), butdoesn't seem to have the same outcome.
Is this a regression or an expected change? Feels weird if there's no way to set the year of the podcast episode, for example...
issued: 2024-07-01