Cant figure out which view to find the edit function

Francinegb

I have been building a library and now have almost 300 items in my biblio and am ready to create the bibliography. Everything says to go to Edit in the menu bar. My view does not have this option. Im clealy in a different part of Zotero. Can you please help?

And - I see many condescending interactions here - please don't be a jerk about this.

dstillman

https://www.zotero.org/support/creating_bibliographies

If something from that page isn't clear, you'll need to quote it and say what you don't understand.

Note that all documentation you see is going to be about the actual Zotero software you download and run on your computer, not the Zotero web library (though you can generate a bibliography there too).

And - I see many condescending interactions here - please don't be a jerk about this.

The point of these forums is to help people, and we spend a huge amount of time doing so — coming here and starting with this tone isn't a great way to begin. Just ask your question.

Francinegb

Thanks for the kind response. The problem is that my bibliography is in the web library. This is precisely why I am having trouble figuring out how to get my references into a place here I can then export them into a bibliography. Can you help me do this? Many thanks!

dstillman

There's a Create Bibliography button in the toolbar in the web library, but that's currently limited to 150 items.

For a larger project, you'd want to download the actual Zotero software and set up syncing to pull down your library and then work with it from there.

Francinegb

I this may be obvious, but all of the functionalities refer to the desktop version and not, indeed, where my actual references are. I cannot find anything that speaks to my either moving me references into a desktop application or finding a way to create a bibliography from the web version.

dstillman

I just answered both of those things.

dstillman

This also depends on your citation style. If it's just an alphabetical style without complicated style rules, you can just sort by creator/etc. in the web library, generate a bibliography in 2 or 3 batches with the toolbar button, and combine them in your document.

Francinegb

I see that our comments above were sent at the same time, so I can see why you commented that you already answered them.

The web library has all of the citations I need for the biblio.

I am looking to create an APA 7 biblio, so not complicated.

But there is literally no functionality that allows me to make this happen from the web app.

I have re-downloaded zotero and it does not show any of the newer citations that I have added via the web in the last few years.

I have looked at how to synch but I cannot seem to import the citations that I created since I started using the web version.

Many thanks for any and all help here.

Francinegb

If you can direct me how to create an APA 7 biblio from the web version, that would be AMAZING!

dstillman

Again, there's a Create Bibliography button in the toolbar — the icon is a stack of books. If you hover over it you'll see a tooltip that says "Create Bibliography". There's really not much more I can tell you. You just click the button. The web library isn't documented because there's just really not much to document.

I have looked at how to synch but I cannot seem to import the citations that I created since I started using the web version.

I don't know what this means. Again, you have to set up syncing and sync. I linked to instructions above. Just saying you can't figure something gives us no way of helping you here — you have to take the time to quote exactly what you're reading that you don't understand, and say what exactly you're trying, what's happening, and what you expected to happen. If it helps, you can take screenshots, upload them somewhere (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.), and provide a link here.

adamsmith

You should figure out syncing -- as dstillman says, you really will want the desktop version as you do more serious work with Zotero --but here's how to get the APA bibliography:

1. Click on My Library at the top of your web library to have all items in view
2. Click on the "Creator" column to sort by creator -- make sure it's sorting ascending, i.e. starting with A
3. Click on the top item in the list
4. Scroll down ~100 items (you can eyball this)
5. Hold down the Shift key and press an item about 100 down the list of items -- you'll see the number of selected items on the right. Make sure this is less than 150 (see the note about the limit of items in the bibliography from the web above)
6. Above the library, click on the icon that looks like some books on a bookshelf -- it's the second one from the right, next to the three dots. When you hover over it, it says "Create bibliography"
7. In the pop-up that opens, select (or search for and select) American Psychological Association, 7th edition. Make sure the locale (on the top right) is set to en-US (likely the default)
8. At the bottom of the window, click on the blue "Copy to clipboard" button.
9. You now have the bibliography in your clipboard and can paste it (ctrl+v or right-click--> paste) into the word processor of your choice
10. Repeat 1-2 times with the remaining items in the list.

Francinegb

Yes - there is the "export bibliography" function on the web application.

This menu:

1) Does not have APA 7 as an option

2) Does not tell me where it is being exported to or how to then later access it, in what way, under what formatting, etc.

"The web library isn't documented because there's just really not much to document."

I am not sure what this means? I have 275 references in my reference library on the web version of zotero?

Can you explain what you mean here?

More importantly if you think there is a really easy way to export and 275 item APA 7 bibliography into a word document from the web version of Zotero- that would fix all of my concerns! Like - literally - this is my question <3

adamsmith

See my step-by-step above. You can search for citation styles that aren't listed (and it's create bibliography, not export -- export is for something else)

Francinegb

adamsmith- Ill check this out. Me response started before I saw your post. Thanks!

dstillman

But also, APA 7 is one of the four styles present by default and there's no way to remove it, so it's absolutely there.