Answered By: Elizabeth Marathas
Last Updated: Jun 05, 2023     Views: 1773

This will take a little bit of doing to get it right but there is a way. First, an example of what your citation should look like:

Gans H, Maldonado Y. Measles: clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. UpToDate; 2019. Accessed February 6, 2021. www.uptodate.com/contents/measles-clinical-manifestations-diagnosis-treatment-and-prevention
 
This follows the Database citation format described in AMA 3.15.8, but the examples it provides are not easy to follow so a reference specific to UpToDate may prove helpful.
 
To get Zotero to produce this correctly, you will import the UpToDate webpage into your collection via the connector and then modify the info accordingly. You could also create a new item in Zotero using the webpage template (green button with plus sign). Alter the metadata (under the 'Info' tab in Zotero) according to these steps:
 
  1. Place the article title in sentence case and remove "- UpToDate."
  2. Add the names of the authors. You can ignore the editors for this purpose.
  3. In the Website Title field, add "UpToDate" then a semicolon and the publication year for that article (use the "topic last updated" date).
  4. Fix the URL by replacing the Springfield College proxy domain ("https://www-uptodate-com.springfieldcollege.idm.oclc.org") with "www.uptodate.com" and leave the rest of the URL "/content/...". Finally, if there is any search string information embedded in the URL it should be removed. Here is an example of what should be removed from the end of the URL: ?search=measles&source=search_result&selectedTitle=1~150&usage_type=default&display_rank=1.
  5. Generate the reference and compare against the example above.
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