Upgrade StorageCitation and bibliography list unified?
Greetings,
(I'm new to Zotero)
I would like to create both a citations list and bibliography list for a non-academic paper.
I am using MS Word and Zotero plugin and have multiple citations and it builds a citations list well. I am using a numeric style that is in author alphabetic order.
First, what are the pros and cons to having a single, unified Cite / Bib list that contains both cites of items and general works consulted in paper's development? The cite would be for the obvious where the quote or detail came from.
My reader will not really be interested in whether or not some item was actually cited versus general reference. It actually may be more important to have a unified list, some works for a given person may be cited and other works by same person used as general reference. However the general reference material may have an annotation that would be helpful for the reader. A unified cite/bib list would have the author co-located in author alphabetic order, whereas two lists, one cite, another bib, would break up the listing of all the works used by a single author.
Major question: how to create a unified citation and bibliographic listing?
Second, how is it best to organize items in Zotero so it is easy to discern what has been cited from those items that have not been cited?
Likewise how can I easily select the non-cited items to include in bibliography?
(Yes I know I can manually select items and create bib - was curious if there was a semi-automated way.)
Any pointers and best practices would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
..Otto
(I'm new to Zotero)
I would like to create both a citations list and bibliography list for a non-academic paper.
I am using MS Word and Zotero plugin and have multiple citations and it builds a citations list well. I am using a numeric style that is in author alphabetic order.
First, what are the pros and cons to having a single, unified Cite / Bib list that contains both cites of items and general works consulted in paper's development? The cite would be for the obvious where the quote or detail came from.
My reader will not really be interested in whether or not some item was actually cited versus general reference. It actually may be more important to have a unified list, some works for a given person may be cited and other works by same person used as general reference. However the general reference material may have an annotation that would be helpful for the reader. A unified cite/bib list would have the author co-located in author alphabetic order, whereas two lists, one cite, another bib, would break up the listing of all the works used by a single author.
Major question: how to create a unified citation and bibliographic listing?
Second, how is it best to organize items in Zotero so it is easy to discern what has been cited from those items that have not been cited?
Likewise how can I easily select the non-cited items to include in bibliography?
(Yes I know I can manually select items and create bib - was curious if there was a semi-automated way.)
Any pointers and best practices would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
..Otto
I did some brief testing.
If one simply selects all items during the "Add/Edit Bibliography" session, it adds them all, and upon "Refresh" will update the number at those locations where an item is actually cited and appropriately has everything, cited and not cited, in correct order in the bib.
Hence there is no need to somehow identify those which are not cited and only add those uncited items. It deals with those that would be duplicated - at least in my quick testing.
Again thank you.