zotero-format-metadata

Features

• 🎨 Rich text editing for titles (superscript, subscript, italics, bold, etc.)
• 🔍 Automatic duplicate detection on import
• 🧾 Smarter item type validation with import failure warnings
• ✨ Field optimization: language detection, sentence case titles, journal abbreviations, university locations, normalized dates/DOIs/pages/volumes
• 📥 One-click metadata updates via DOI, ArXiv ID, and more

For more details, see features.

Install

1. Go to the release page or Zotero Chinese to download the latest .xpi file.
2. Then, in Zotero, click Tools -> Plugin and drag the .xpi onto the Plugins Manager window. See how to install a Zotero addon.

Todo

See Project #1 .

Contribution

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Licence

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Permissions of this strongest copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. When a modified version is used to provide a service over a network, the complete source code of the modified version must be made available.

Code, rules, pref keys, data files, locale strings or comments copied from this project into another plugin — copied, paraphrased, translated, renamed or generated with AI assistance — make that plugin a derivative work. It must keep the LICENSE / NOTICE files and the SPDX header, state the changes made, be licensed as a whole under AGPL-3.0-or-later, and publish its complete corresponding source code. “An AI wrote it” does not change any of this. See NOTICE for details.

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the following:

• This project is built upon the Zotero Plugin Template and makes extensive use of outstanding open-source libraries. For a complete list, please refer to the dependency graph.
• We thank the providers of the following data resources:
  • ISO 639-3 and its associated mapping table
  • JabRef journal abbreviation list
  • abbrevIso (MIT), bundled for inferring journal abbreviations from the ISSN LTWA per ISO 4
  • List of National Higher Education Institutions, published by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
• We gratefully acknowledge the data support provided by the following API services:
  • CrossRef API: for retrieving DOI metadata and bibliographic metadata
  • Semantic Scholar API: for retrieving bibliographic metadata
  • shortdoi.org: for generating short DOIs
  • doi.org: for resolving DOIs
• We are indebted to the DOI Manager (MPL-2.0 License) for inspiring the implementation of the require-doi, correct-doi-long, and tool-get-short-doi rules.
• Special thanks to @zepinglee for curating the Zotero Field Specification.
• We would also like to thank the Zotero French translation team for providing a French user guide for this plugin.
• We also acknowledge the valuable coding assistance provided by ChatGPT and DeepSeek during development.
• Finally, thanks to all project contributors:

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