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It looks as if hyphenated words like Greco-Roman title-case fine now, though words following single and double quotes don't yet.
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You're not doing anything wrong. Transforms only work for Title and Publication fields as far as I can tell, but could usefully be added for Series Titles. And it would be useful to have something similar for personal names and publishers, to clea…
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... for immediate use of the reference it is a helpful thing to do. Sure, and citing both the paper source and URI is appropriate in an increasing number of contexts, but still not every context (however helpful it may be to the reader), since publi…
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This would also help as an interim way to keep journal names and abbreviations consistent (until a more sophisticated abbreviation manager is implemented).
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Zotero looks for bibliographic data on sites whose URLs match certain regular expressions. This way it can harvest bibliographic data from the sites it is designed to (amazon.com, university libraries, online databases). It ignores all other sites…
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RE: the Society of Biblical Literature style. The style guide itself is found here: http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/SBLHS.pdf (The link above is to the student supplement to the guide.) Note that the first thing that people who want the SBL st…
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There have been attempts on the dev list to make each of Zotero's panes more independently configurable. From this it sounds like they hope to make a go of it sometime, but also that it can't be implemented before Firefox 3.0, owing to some proble…
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Just go one step up: you need to move the whole contents of the 'zotero' folder, which includes the database itself (zotero.sqlite) and its backup. The storage folder only has the saved PDFs and web snapshots.
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The developers have said they intend to sort this out better, which I'm sure will happen. It's connected to a set of larger issues about how to keep URIs, and what should count as canonical URIs for an item, and how to get your citation style to fa…
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I don't think you can do that yet. This problem comes up more often than it might because some of the translators put the URL for database records containing the article's metadata into Zotero's URL field. (The CSL field to which that field is map…
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Very cool. Thanks.
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Yes. I'd like adding Zotero references from EBSCOhost folders as well. It'd be much quicker than the method judith mentioned, especially for jumpstarting a new research project... when you may want to import a lot of items, but a relatively small …
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It's working for me at aulib.abdn.ac.uk (University of Aberdeen), both from a list and from individual records.
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I've not tried this, but can Word be coaxed to turn your bibliography fields into flat text? Then you could save all the editing until the end. This is, of course not a brilliant long-term solution, but it might help your present case.
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In Windows, I found scrapers.sql in C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random-string]\extensions\zotero@chnm.gmu.edu\scrapers.sql (which is to say that it's in your firefox profile and then in the exten…
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Also note the limitation to Zotero's (/CSL's) automated Chicago support mentioned in this thread. The SBL stylebook doesn't specify this case particularly, but one would assume it follows Chicago. This does raise the question of how strictly one …
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From your examples, I guess you mean you want to cite some summary publication about Zotero, rather than citing Zotero (the program) itself (which there is no reason you could not do---though you might have to invent the form for the citation.) I kn…
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I'm afraid Zotero itself is not capable of server access yet, so there is no possibility at all to set something up. It seems that a stable 1.0 release has taken more time than they expected. Unfortunately, this means there's nothing for it at thi…
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Select the PDF in the center pane, then click the name of the PDF at the top of the right pane. It will let you rename.
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Feel free to contradict me if your experience suggests otherwise, but zotero's auto-detect features are triggered (as far as I know) by regular expressions matching against incoming URLs. They shouldn't interfere with page loading time except by th…
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I can't comment on whether it's an error-prone idea or not, sorry. I think that Zotero's import and export of its own RDF is pretty robust, but I haven't played with it. Perhaps someone else can comment. Note that at the moment Zotero doesn't hav…
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I just tried ATLA over EBSCO and don't get an error, either from a search results list or individual records. Perhaps this as been fixed?
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Until then, you're right. Real collaboration of the kind you describe is not possible with Zotero. You could, I suppose have a single database online somewhere, which each person 'checks out' to edit, then replaces. (Just copy the /zotero directo…
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Yeah, but "being asked" every time which you want to do isn't exactly the cat's meow, either. As it is, you can press Ctrl/Cmd-Delete or alternately, right-click and choose "Delete Selected Item from Library". The current UI's way of 'asking' wheth…
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I'll also try to get debug output the next time I have a chance
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If you are interested in seeing (what looks to me like) the relatively brisk work being done on the project, you might be interested in subscribing to the RSS feed of Zotero's Trac development tool. You'll probably also want to know about the devel…
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As my collection size grows, I do sometimes wish that I had an 'archive' that I could throw useful items into. Things I don't need now, but don't want to have to track down again. And maybe once in a while have a peek at that archive. I know that…
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Hmm, Just read Dan S's post on another thread about the hidden pref for recursive collections. I like it and will give it a try.
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I use collections for exactly those kind of workflow issues. So far it works. I do wish I could specify collections to "contain all items in subordinate collections", instead of making me create a saved search for each. Eventually it'd be nice to…
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You're right. It is a common enough situation. It is planned to make 'relating' one item to another possible (Zotero+CSL language for the kind of crossref functionality you are asking for). This is coming in a future version.