zotero stores the Series Title extra field

edited 28 days ago
Example DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27322-4_2

Using https://search.crossref.org I see that the data includes:
"container-title":["Springer Handbook of Aerogels","Springer Handbooks"]

When importing this work via DOI, zotero saves the first container title (Springer Handbook of Aerogels) in the "Book Title" field. However, the second container title (Springer Handbooks) is not saved in the "Series" field. Instead "Series Title: Springer Handbooks" is included in the extra field.

Is there a reason for this? Is the "Series" field not meant to hold the Series Title?
  • No, that's a bug, we'll fix.

    For background, there's some conceptual confusion in the Zotero data model between Series and Series Title -- there are, technically, items that have both (the journal article item type in Zotero actually has both), but it's vanishingly rare and e.g. at the CSL level the distinction doesn't exist at all. In this case, though, the import translator just maps this to the wrong field. It should just go to Series.
  • Thank you!
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