Zotero guidelines

Guidelines for adding items to Zotero

If you add items to our Zotero group, please ensure the following:

• Author names must be there, and they must be complete (no abbreviated first names). Last names in the "last names" field, and first and middle names in the "first names" field.
• The publication language must be there, as a two-letter ISO-639-1, or a three-letter ISO-639-3 code in the "language" field.
• Make sure the publication type is correct.
• If there is a DOI, it should be in the DOI field. For item types where Zotero does not have a DOI field (e.g. book chapter), the DOI can be inserted in the "extra" field, in a new line preceded by "DOI: ". That also works for OCLC identifiers ("OCLC: ").
• Do not use the Zotero function "automatically create tags". Please make sure that only meaningful tags are assigned to the item, and delete any additional tags, which we would not use for the retrieval of items. Otherwise, the Zotero tag list soon gets very long and not usable.

When you are sure the publication metadata is complete and correct, assing the tag "wikibase-export" to the item, so that it is exported to this Wikibase when we run the export script.

Items that are already described on this Wikibase have a link attachment that leads to the Wikibase item, and, in addition, they have the entity URI in the "extra" field. They are also tagged with a tag named "on-wikibase".