Website references invalidated

Sylvielgki
Hello
Website references get a dot (full stop) automatically added at the end of the link and this invalidates the link so one cannot click on it to go to the website. Is there a way to prevent the dot from being added?
Cheers
Sylvie
  • dstillman
    edited July 19, 2023
    In what context?

    https://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_problems#provide_steps_to_reproduce
  • Sylvielgki
    I am not sure I understand the question. Basically a dot is automatically added to all references when one builds the bibliography at the end of an article for example. This dot does not interfere when the reference is another article but if it is a web address, some links become invalid and to access it, one needs to manually remove the dot. One of our reviewers complained about this.
  • Sylvielgki
    Here is an example of a link invalidated by the dot that is automatically added by Zotero: https://www.youtube.com/Microcourses.
  • dstillman
    edited July 20, 2023
    See the link I provided. That's the kind of description we need. We don't know how you're generating a bibliography, what citation style you're using, the exact reference you're getting, etc.
  • Sylvielgki
    Yes now I get it.
    Report id: D103272267
    steps to reproduce:
    I want to add a website to my library. I did not find any better way to cite websites than what is described below. If there is one, please let me know.
    1- Click on the green + button, website is not shown
    2- Select Blog Post
    3- On the right side under Info/Item type, select webpage
    4- Insert the reference to the website in a Word document using the Word plugin.
    5- Check the library: a dot is added at the end of each reference, including websites. Some of them are invalidated.
  • dstillman
    edited July 20, 2023
    You're still not providing the specific things I asked for.
    what citation style you're using, the exact reference you're getting
  • adamsmith
    To be clear -- whether bibliography entries end with a period after a URL is specific to citation styles. See e.g. https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html for Chicago Manual, which explicitly does include periods after URLs. On the other hand, APA doesn't.
    It's certainly possible we have this wrong for a specific citation style, but as omitting the period isn't a general rule, we'd need to know which.
  • Sylvielgki
    It seems that I have been using the Nature style. If the problem is easily fixed by switching to APA, I will just do that. :)
  • Sylvielgki
    I just tried with the APA style and indeed, there is no dot added after each citation. Thanks for the help! :)
  • dstillman
    Just to note, the reason I asked where you were using the bibliography is that Zotero itself doesn't make URLs active — your word processor or other tools would do that. And for me, Word itself does not hyperlink trailing periods after URLs. E.g., if you open a Word document and type https://example.com/foo. and press Return/Enter, the period isn't included in the active link that Word makes. So the citation style you use in Zotero doesn't necessarily matter — even if it includes a trailing period, you can just make sure that the period isn't being included in the active link.
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