Zotero Translator for OSF Projects

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The Zotero Connector current captures OSF Projects as item type "Journal Article" rather than item type "Web Page," which I believe would be a better fit.

Here is a sample OSF Project: https://osf.io/nsbr3/

Notice that there are 3 dates:

• Date Created: 2020-02-28 05:18 PM
• Date Last Updated: 2023-10-02 11:40 PM
• Date Accessed: 2023-11-17 12:40 PM

OSF Suggested Citations

OSF suggests the following citations, which use the Date Last Updated:

APA
Beaudry, J. L., Chen, D. T., Cook, B. G., Dirzo, M., Errington, T. M., Fortunato, L., … Wang, H. (2023, October 2). The Open Scholarship Survey (OSS). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NSBR3

BibTeX generic citation style

@misc{Beaudry_Chen_Cook_Dirzo_Errington_Fortunato_Given_Hahn_Ihle_Markham_et al._2023,
  title={The Open Scholarship Survey (OSS)},
  url={osf.io/nsbr3},
  DOI={10.17605/OSF.IO/NSBR3},
  publisher={OSF},
  author={Beaudry, Jennifer L and Chen, Donna T and Cook, Bryan G and Dirzo, Mirka and Errington, Timothy M and Fortunato, Laura and Given, Lisa M and Hahn, Krystal and Ihle, Malika and Markham, Lesley and et al.},
  year={2023},
  month={Oct}
}

Zotero Default Citation (Journal Article)

The Zotero Connector captures this as item type "Journal Article".

APA
Beaudry, J. L., Chen, D. T., Cook, B. G., Dirzo, M., Errington, T. M., Fortunato, L., Given, L., Hahn, K., Ihle, M., & Markham, L. (2020). The Open Scholarship Survey (OSS). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NSBR3

BibTex

@article{beaudry2020,
  title = {The {{Open Scholarship Survey}} ({{OSS}})},
  author = {Beaudry, Jennifer L. and Chen, Donna T. and Cook, Bryan G. and Dirzo, Mirka and Errington, Timothy M. and Fortunato, Laura and Given, Lisa and Hahn, Krystal and Ihle, Malika and Markham, Lesley},
  year = {2020},
  month = feb,
  publisher = {{OSF}},
  doi = {10.17605/OSF.IO/NSBR3},
  urldate = {2023-11-17},
  abstract = {The OSS is a standard, modular survey to assess open scholarship attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of researchers      Hosted on the Open Science Framework},
  langid = {english}
}

Zotero Web Page Converted from Default Citation (Journal Article)

Converting the default Journal Article to a Web Page gives:

APA
Beaudry, J. L., Chen, D. T., Cook, B. G., Dirzo, M., Errington, T. M., Fortunato, L., Given, L., Hahn, K., Ihle, M., & Markham, L. (2020, February 28). The Open Scholarship Survey (OSS). OSF. https://osf.io/nsbr3/

BibTex

@misc{beaudry2020a,
  title = {The {{Open Scholarship Survey}} ({{OSS}})},
  author = {Beaudry, Jennifer L. and Chen, Donna T. and Cook, Bryan G. and Dirzo, Mirka and Errington, Timothy M. and Fortunato, Laura and Given, Lisa and Hahn, Krystal and Ihle, Malika and Markham, Lesley},
  year = {2020},
  month = feb,
  publisher = {{OSF}},
  urldate = {2023-11-17},
  abstract = {The OSS is a standard, modular survey to assess open scholarship attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of researchers      Hosted on the Open Science Framework},
  howpublished = {https://osf.io/nsbr3/},
  langid = {english}
}

Zotero Web Page Suggested Citation

I would propose the following citation, based on the OSF suggested citations with some modifications:

• website type set to "OSF Project" (or another way to identify it as an OSF Project)

These fields also differ, and I'm not sure about whether it would be possible to change:

• Using "Date Created" rather than "Date Last Updated" (which may make sense as "Date Last Updated" will change)
• Title italicized

APA
Beaudry, J. L., Chen, D. T., Cook, B. G., Dirzo, M., Errington, T. M., Fortunato, L., Given, L., Hahn, K., Ihle, M., & Markham, L. (2020, February 28). The Open Scholarship Survey (OSS) [OSF Project]. OSF. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NSBR3

BibTex

@misc{beaudry2020b,
  type = {{{OSF Project}}},
  title = {The {{Open Scholarship Survey}} ({{OSS}})},
  author = {Beaudry, Jennifer L. and Chen, Donna T. and Cook, Bryan G. and Dirzo, Mirka and Errington, Timothy M. and Fortunato, Laura and Given, Lisa and Hahn, Krystal and Ihle, Malika and Markham, Lesley},
  year = {2020},
  month = feb,
  publisher = {{OSF}},
  doi = {10.17605/OSF.IO/NSBR3},
  urldate = {2023-11-17},
  abstract = {The OSS is a standard, modular survey to assess open scholarship attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of researchers      Hosted on the Open Science Framework},
  howpublished = {https://osf.io/nsbr3/},
  langid = {english}
}

Additional considerations

Not all OSF Projects have DOIs (see example: https://osf.io/2483h/)
Some OSF Projects have custom citations (see example: https://osf.io/ezcuj/)