Upgrade StorageBiological Sciences and italics
I know this has been done before but there doesn't seem to be an update;
Biologists need to be able to use scientific names in bibliographies. By convention these are expressed in italics. Many published papers include italicised species names in titles and it still seems as though there is no way of including these italics when the reference is imported into Zotero - the text is non-italicised. Also, on the subject of italicising - when several authors contribute to a paper it is normal to write 'Smith et al. 2009' again 'et al' should be italicised but this doesn't work in the citations.
Come on Zotero....!!!!
Biologists need to be able to use scientific names in bibliographies. By convention these are expressed in italics. Many published papers include italicised species names in titles and it still seems as though there is no way of including these italics when the reference is imported into Zotero - the text is non-italicised. Also, on the subject of italicising - when several authors contribute to a paper it is normal to write 'Smith et al. 2009' again 'et al' should be italicised but this doesn't work in the citations.
Come on Zotero....!!!!
Apparently this will all be sorted in the new version of the CSL (coming in a few weeks we hope!)
It will use something like html tags to mark your text (as italic, subscript, etc), and this will magically be converted to the right form in the bibliography.
If you are desperate, there is a workaround using search-and-replace in word.
More details here.
And just for the record, the main standards body CSE states that et al. should not be in italics (even though some journals ignore them!).
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3875/rich-text-in-titles/
Asplundj - please note my opening sentence. Your link is dated over a year ago. Facetious comments like that are not helpful.
Johan