Readme for Society for Neuroscience Abstract 2016.js

Society for Neuroscience Abstract 2016.js is a web translator for the bibliographic software, Zotero. This will allow you to store SfN abstracts into your Zotero library as Conference Article type.

This translator works for Society for Neuroscience Abstracts from 2016 onwards.

https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/7883 (year 2019)

https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4649 (year 2018)

https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4376 (year 2017)

https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4071 (year 2016)

Although I have made a Pull Request for Zotero translators, it's stuck and has not been added to Zotero. I decided to create a separate repo on its own.

Example

Using CSL_JNS_DOI style, an abstract item imported in Zotero looks like

Nakamura KC, Micklem B, Berry N, Spagnol G, Sharott A, Magill PJ (2019) CHemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Mouse thalamus as a BNDU opEn Resource (CHAMBER): A publicly-accessible online database of protein expression in mouse brain. In: Society for Neuroscience Abstract, pp 089.01/DP14/BB1. Chicago, IL., https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/index.html#!/7883/presentation/64250

Note that pp needs to be removed manually with this style (see below).

Installation

1. Find and open your Zotero data directory from Preferences > Advanced > Files and Folders > Data Directory Location > Show Data Directory.
2. Find the folder translators
3. Download Society for Neuroscience Abstract 2016.js and place it in the translators folder.
4. Restart your Zotero and web browser.

Tips

• If the abstract page is not detected for the translator, try reloading the page a few times and usually it works.

Issues

• We can argue whether an abstract in SfN conference should be treated as "Journal Article" or "Conference Paper". The latter makes more sense, so I chouse it. Yet, when you want to cite those abstracts in your paper, Journal Article format might work better.
• As identifiers, the presentation ID eg. 089.01 and place ID eg. DP1/BB1 are both important, but where should we keep them? I chose Pages, but this results in pp 089.01/DP1/BB1 in citation, so not ideal (you need to manually remove pp).

Developer

Dr Kouichi C. Nakamura

MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit

kouichi.c.nakamura@gmail.com