Add/Edit Citation Add a new citation or edit an existing citation in your document at the cursor location. Add/Edit Bibliography Insert a bibliography at the cursor location or edit an existing bibliography. Document Preferences Open the Document Preferences window, e.g. To change the citation style. Refresh Refresh all citations and the bibliography, updating any item metadata that has changed in your Zotero library. Unlink Citations Unlink Zotero citations in the document by removing the field codes.
Write with Zotero. The Word plugin adds a toolbar to Word. In the Word tabs, it’s under “Add-Ins.” On Mac Word 2011 and later, it’s a free-floating toolbar. In older versions of Mac Word it’s under the scroll icon after “Help” in the top menu bar. To insert a citation, click the first toolbar button, “Zotero Insert. Some Mac users (Office 2016 for Mac and earlier) might see the Zotero tools in Word under the Add-ins menu on the top horizontal toolbar: Some Mac users (Office 2011 for Mac) may see a floating Zotero toolbar when opening Word.
This prevents any further automatic updates of the citations and bibliographies. Note that removing field codes is irreversible, and should usually only be done in a final copy of your document. You can begin citing with Zotero by clicking the “Add/Edit Citation” ( ) button. Pressing the button brings up the citation dialog. The citation dialog is used to select items from your Zotero library, and create a citation. Start typing part of a title, the last names of one or more authors, and/or a year in the dialog box. Matching items will instantly appear below the dialog box.
Matching items will be shown for each library in your Zotero database (My Library and any groups you are part of). Items you have already cited in the document will be shown at the top of the list under “Cited”. Select an item by clicking on it or by pressing Enter/Return when it is highlighted. The item will appear in the dialog box in a shaded bubble. Press Enter/Return again to insert the citation and close the Add Citation box.
In the Add Citation dialog box, you can click on the bubble for a cited item, then click “Open in My Library (or the Group Library's name)” to view the item in Zotero. Items that are orphaned (not connected to any items in your Zotero database) will not have an “Open in My Library” button. Orphaned items can exist if they were inserted by a collaborator from their My Library or a group you don't have access to or if you they were deleted from your Zotero library. The “Prefix” and “Suffix” text boxes allow you to specify text to respectively precede and follow the automatically generated cite. For example, instead of “Tribe 1999”, you might want “cf.
Tribe 1999, see also”. Any text in the prefix and suffix fields can be formatted with the HTML tags (for italics), (bold), (subscript), and (superscript). For example, typing ”cf.
The classic example“ will be displayed as ” cf. The classic example“.
Prefixes and suffixes can be applied to each item in a citation to create complex citations. For example: ”(see Smith 1776 for the classic example; Marx 1867 presents and alternate view)“. Modifying citations by entering text into the Prefix and Suffix fields is always preferable to directly typing in the citation fields in Word. Manual modifications will prevent Zotero from automatically updating the citation. Suppress Authors: Using Authors in the Text.
To create a citation containing multiple cites (e.g., ”2,4-6“ for numeric styles or ”(Smith 1776, Schumpeter 1962)“ for author-date styles), add them one after the other in the Add Citation box. After selecting the first item, don't press Enter/Return, but type the author, title, or year of the next item. Some citation styles require that items within one in-text citations are ordered either alphabetically (e.g., ”(Doe 2000, Grey 1994, Smith 2008)“) or chronologically (”(Grey 1994, Doe 2000, Smith 2008)“). Zotero will follow these sort rules automatically. After you've inserted the bibliography using the “Add/Edit Bibliography” ( ) button, click the button again to open the Edit Bibliography window. In this window, you can add uncited sources to your bibliography (e.g., items included in a review but not cited in the paper) or remove items that are cited in text but which should not be included in the bibliography (e.g., personal communications).
While it is also possible to edit the text or formatting of bibliography references in this window, doing so is discouraged. References edited here will not be automatically updated by Zotero if you change the data in your library. Editing references here is also somewhat unreliable; several users have reported that modifications made here sometimes do not persist when Zotero references, among other issues. If you need to edit items in your bibliography, it is best to do this as a final step before submitting the document.
First, save a backup copy of the document. Then, click the “Unlink Citations” button ( ) to disconnect your document from Zotero and convert all citations and the bibliography to regular text. Finally, make your adjustments to the bibliography text.
This process can be used for a variety of minor modifications to the bibliography, including:.