Zotero Citation tool

Overview

This page describes how Kate installed and used the Zotero web tool for citations for the NAR2015 publication. Cath made this document about Zotero for the NAR2016 publication. Since then things have changed, so below is information from before 2020 and then after 2020, some information from both sections may be helpful for future Zotero users.

pre2020

Steps

• At download site (https://www.zotero.org/download/), I downloaded and installed 'Standalone for Mac', and plugins for Chrome and FF.

• Restarted FF and browsed to a few articles, clicked on article icon in search entry box to add them to lib.

• Searched for 'Nucleic Acids Research' at citation website (http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByName/), and clicked 'Install', then selected 'Zotero'. Saved to file.

• In Zotero app, went to Preferences->Cite->Styles, then clicked '+'. Selected file I had saved.

(Now I see that from the 'Get Additional Styles' link you can get NAR, without what I did in previous step. Fooled me -- I had previously looked there for 'Chemical Abstracts', which isn't there).

• Restart Word. There's a little menu attached at the upper left. You can insert a citation there

(picking NAR style) to your doc and it will show up as an inline ref. There's an 'insert bibliography' that spits out the references. And if you re-order things, a 'Refresh' will renumber. NOTE: if you don't see this menu, there's a scroll glyph with a drop-down menu...

It takes a few minutes to figure out where/what the little menu icons are for the client and word plug-in.

Additional Links/Info

• Here is a link to the style sheet used to National Library of Medicine (grant proposals with PMCID/PMID) from the Zotero Style Repository (search PMID in Preferences->Cite->Styles step above).
• Here is a tool that allows you to visually edit the style: http://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor/
• UCSC Genome Browser group Zotero Library: https://hgwdev.gi.ucsc.edu/~ann/Zotero/2019Library.rdf