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Referencing with EU Style Using Zotero

Referencing a report

Referencing a report


A report where the institution is considered the creator

In-text citation

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit (European Commission, 2021).

Reference in the bibliography

European Commission (2021), ‘Consultation on a monitoring framework for the 8th environment action programme’, [consultative paper], Ares(2021)4555569, 14 July, https://environment.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-07/Explanatory%20Note%208EAP%20Indicators.pdf.

 
Bibliographic metadata in Zotero


A report where the institution is not considered the creator 

In-text citation

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit (Graef, 2019).

Reference in the bibliography

Graef, I. (2019), ‘Rethinking the Essential Facilities Doctrine for the EU Digital Economy’, TILEC Discussion Paper No 28, Tilburg Law and Economics Center, Tilburg (Netherlands), pp. 33–72, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3371457.

 

Bibliographic metadata in Zotero

Zotero fields for report with personal author

Reports or other similar documents

Zotero 'Item Type' – 'Report'.

Creator roles (in order of preference as main creator): ‘Author’, ‘Translator’, ‘Series Editor’ and ‘Contributor’.

Zotero fields

Bibliographic element

Status

observations

Author (or other)

Creator

Required if…

… applicable

Title

Title

Required

Report Number

Publication number

Required if…

… applicable

Report Type

Gender

Optional

recommended for specifying the type of report 

Series Title

Collection title

Optional

 

Place

Place of publication

Optional

Institution

Publisher

Required if…

... different from creators

Date

Date of publication

Required

the three date-parts (y-m-d) will be displayed if present 

Pages

start and end pages numbers

Required if…

… applicable

Short title

Title

Optional

this field will be used to identify the document in in-text citations if no creators are present

URL

Digital locator

Required if… … applicable

Call Number

Internal number

Optional

it can be used to add an internal reference number

Extra

[can assume several]

Optional

can be used to add additional bibliographic elements that are not included by default, by using specific tags (e.g., doi:)