DOI with escaped symbols

andreas_plesch · 2025-09-25T21:14:03+00:00

The style for the journal produces dois in the bibliography with % url escapes:

10.1130/0016-7606(1970)81%5B3513:IOPTFT%5D2.0.CO;2.

This looks ugly and does not work for doi lookups. Is that something which can be changed with the style editor ? (admitting that I did not try to dig into that yet).

Thanks.

dstillman · 2025-09-25T22:43:46+00:00

What style?

andreas_plesch · 2025-09-26T14:33:06+00:00

Not sure how to format xml here but the style id is referenced as:

http://www.zotero.org/styles/bulletin-of-the-seismological-society-of-america

adamsmith · 2025-09-26T14:41:49+00:00

I'm not seeing that. How exactly are you generating the bibliography? And you've checked how the DOI is entered in Zotero (FWIW, those old DOIs with colons, square brackets, and what have you have some odd properties that make them behave poorly with lots of DOI based systems, but I'm not seeing any issue with Zotero for this one)

andreas_plesch · 2025-09-26T15:13:33+00:00

I am using the chrome plugin, and the doi lookup in the app, to add items to the library.

In the app, the doi field looks correct, eg. does not use the escapes.

andreas_plesch · 2025-09-26T15:14:25+00:00

To generate, I am using the google docs plugin, and the add/edit bibliography function.

andreas_plesch · 2025-09-26T15:17:51+00:00

Well, I cannot change the doi with its odd properties. So I am looking for a way to deal with those. Perhaps manually, eg. search/replace after generation.

andreas_plesch · 2025-09-26T15:25:16+00:00

Does the xml style definition have a directive to avoid processing a field as an url, eg. use the field value verbatim ?

andreas_plesch · 2025-09-26T15:35:08+00:00

https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html does not seem to provide special formatting of urls. So perhaps Zotero internally provides the doi with escapes to the style ?

dstillman · 2025-09-26T15:43:40+00:00

You just hadn't said that you were referring to the Google Docs plugin.

I can reproduce with that. We'll investigate.

andreas_plesch · 2025-09-26T18:06:54+00:00

Thanks.