Adding Research Reviews and Articles
As you create new content, it will populate on the Home Page, the page for the appropriate content type, and their designated Research Topic page.
How to Create a Research Review
The main elements of a research review are the title, byline, hero image, text, citations, table of contents, "cite this" section, and optional Altmetric badges.
When entering the review or article text into the WordPress editor, you will need to ensure that all formatting is correct in your text editing software before proceeding. Format the body text and all sub headings correctly, and add a works cited section.
To create a new research review, navigate in the dashboard to Research Reviews > Add New. This will open a new research review template.
Enter the title and paste in the text, including the works cited.
Use the sidebar on the right of the screen to assign it a research topic and focus tags.
Assign it an author by associating the research review with a scholar profile. If you have not set up a scholar profile for the author of the piece, do that now. See Adding Profiles for more information.
Set a featured image for the research review. This will appear on the home page and research topic page, but will not appear as part of the header of the research review. Take the time to add in alt text, to allow users using a screen reader to understand the image. The image should be at least 1200px wide, high-contrast B&W. See Media Library for more information.
Scroll down to the bottom of the research review to enter a citation in your preferred format, as well as a DOI, if you choose to use one. Each research review or article needs a “Formatted Citation” to power the “Cite This” tool.
Ensure that all of the body text is in "paragraph" and all of the headers are in H2. That powers the automated table of contents function on the page. If all of the headers are not in H2, the table of contents will not appear. In addition, insure that the table of contents plugin is installed. For more information, see Hosting and Installation.
Add an excerpt, which will preview the article on the Research Topic and Research Review pages.
Make sure to save your research review as a draft, and use the preview function to check your work.
After it is published, you may want to feature the research review in the Homepage Slides. You will need to create a homepage slide for the article, and link it manually, to do this.
Associating the research review's citations with the Zotero library
Citations in a research review may already be in your Zotero library, but if not, they should be entered. The citations should then be linked to the Research Review, following these steps:
If you don't have the citations in Zotero, import the citations from the review. The easiest way to do this is to have the author use Zotero to compile their citations, which you can then import into your collection. Or, if the author has used a different citation manager, have the author export the citations in a format that is readable by Zotero, like RIS or BibTex. For more information, see Zotero's entry on importing citations: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_formatted_bibliographies
Check over the new citations to make sure that they are correct. Citations imported into Zotero can have incomplete metadata. It is often easier to import any new citations into their own folder in an non-public Zotero library so they can be checked for completeness or incorrect information before they are uploaded to the Research AMP site.
Zotero libraries are synced to Research AMP once per day, though you can speed up this process by triggering a sync in the Zotero section of your Research AMP back end. When you do this, Research AMP creates a page for each citation in the Citations section of the site.
Manually link each citation to the correct Research AMP page. One option, if you use author-date citations, is to link the (author, date) text on the first usage.
How to Create an Article
The articles content template has a bit less structure than the research review template to allow for greater customization. Like with the research reviews, we recommend developing editorial guidelines that will define what constitutes an article for your Research AMP site. Some considerations include length, tone, citation and hyperlink styles, and how often you intend to publish an article.
It is possible to customize the "articles" name in the navigation bar by changing the Research AMP templates for the navigation bar, home page, and article archive pages.
Articles differ from research reviews in three ways:
They feature the hero image at the top of the page, next to the title
The "recent articles" teaser block can be activated to appear on each article page.
An automated table of contents is not generated
The process for posting an article and adding citations is much the same as it is for a research review; see above.
Essay Series, Video, and Interview Article Types
We have included some sample content types—Video, Essay Series, and Interview—to allow for you to designate different types of content in the Articles section. We have not created distinctive templates for each of these article types. You may build them using the Article Template, and designate them as new content types in the "Article Type" section of the right sidebar. Use the Block Inserter to insert the right elements for your article type.
For example, if you would like to embed a video, create a new Article, open the Block Inserter, and choose the "Video" block. Upload a video or insert it from URL.
You may choose to use the Archive Templates to create a distinctive template for these content types, or you may choose to formalize the method for creating them from a standard Article template by documenting the process in your style guide and workflow.
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