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You're right; et al fixed.
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Good to hear. If you confirm your understanding of the Science guidelines, I can fix it in the style. Can you do that, perhaps with a link as well? Note to Simon and/or Dan: I think that if a numeric style has the collapse set to true, it might …
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Rachelle: Zotero now reads Endnote style files, so in theory, styles aren't a problem.
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As my comment to jackholt suggests, I don't think his problem is Zotero; it seems like it was the style he was using (though would appreciate confirmation). It would be good, BTW, if Zotero's style preview on the repository included multiple citati…
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jackholt: before you bolt, can you check a change I just committed to the Science style? In the version you've been using, there are no sorting rules for the citation. I presume this is why it's not sorted. I just added a rule that says to sort on t…
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I don't use these numbered styles, but as a general point, they can be rather tricky to process. Consider, for example, that some styles want you to number the citations based on order of (first) occurence, while others want it by order of listing i…
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CSL does not support this, and it's not as trivial as you think to implement. But it would be nice to have.
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The issue with master documents in Word isn't the concept, or the user experience; it's that they are known to be really buggy. See, for example, this from McGhie. His conclusion: A master document has only two possible states: Corrupt, or just abou…
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Part of what you need is general tips on using Word for theses and other "long documents". I recall looking for just that when I did my a decade ago, and that John McGhie had some great suggestions. See google. So, right, don't use master document…
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I don't really know, but I'd be leery myself of using .doc as default save format in OOo. I recall lots of stories of corrupt documents even in Word.
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Have you confirmed that each of the D. Watson's are entered *exactly* the same in your database? Zotero might be getting confused and thinking they're different authors.
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Yeah, while it's certainly possible to have an author-date style that uses ibid, I'd recommend against it for the reasons outlined by the excerpt Elena posted above. It doesn't really add anything, and it's not very reader-friendly.
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Your analysis is correct; the current design is pretty fatally-flawed that way. I guess one shorter-term solution is to leave it to one person to manage the formal citations.
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Yeah, I see no evidence Chicago discourages ibid. A source would be nice. But, as I've said before, I also think that Zotero should offer a user preference to switch off ibid handling. It's easy-to-implement, user-friendly, and avoids needless dupl…
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Although, this should be a secondary priority, given that one cannot even use a document written with Zotero with Zotero*! This is a critical weakness that I hope gets addressed soon; before you start worrying about reading Endnote fields. * e.g. a…
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Oh, also worth noting that the latest release can read Endnote style files.
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Are folks using it to replace Endnotes or are most using it just to collect from especially electronic sources and web clipping? I think there are a lot of former Endnote users who use Zotero in much the same way. I'm one of them. I realize you can'…
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I suggest you try it yourself. It's free.
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I mentioned this a long time ago here, but Endnote's RIS export has had this bug forever. I suggest you adjust for it.
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If you don't want to use it, then simply do not use it. That's it. It's not that straightforward. I'd say dumb bold/italic/underline is actually counter-productive. In my experience, these "features" actually get in the way, and they're difficult, i…
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It's a bug.
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Search the forums; this has been discussed extensively.
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It seems that the easiest thing to do would be to leave unparsable date fields alone as plain text? It might be "easy", but it's not "good."
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FYI, there's a bug report on this over at OOo, and some of the OOo devs have looked at it. The latest conclusion is that the problem is with Zotero; in particular an unreturned RPC call.
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This feature doesn't belong in Zotero. It might be appropriate for a separate utility though (probably something you install in TB to "send to Zotero").
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Might be worth following what's going on in the land of twitter and open source alternatives. I don't know all the details, but services like identi.ca are based on XMPP and allow for distributed/federated deployment. E.g. there's now a centralized …
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I'm on record as believing adding Endnote styles support is a bad idea, in part for reasons like this. But it would be really good, I suspect, if people reporting problems with Endnote styles could try to identify whether the problems they are see…
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You could treat it as an article. The "106th ..." bit is the tricky part, and I'm not sure where you'd park that data. Not sure either what "H2205" is?
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Numbering your files by some internal database number is a really bad idea.
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Hmm ... "recording type" is ambiguous. I could imagine they might mean by that something like format or medium, but it's not clear. This ought to be cleaned up. To wit, I've created a ticket.