Find text in doc that is referred to in a footnote

jwilentz
Any way to click on a footnote and find the text points in a Word document to which this footnote refers?
  • adamsmith
    Nothing to do with Zotero, but double-clicking on the footnote anchor (the little number at the beginning of the note) will do that.
  • jwilentz
    In Word for Mac, that doesn't work. Not sure why -- I had expected it would.
  • jwilentz
    It does work in native endnotes created directly in Word for Mac, but not in the Zotero endnotes. If I double click on the endnote number the entire text becomes highlighted (see below) and nothing at all happens in terms of cursor movement back to the referred to text. I have created the endnotes as I always do in the New England Journal format, and then said "Add/Edit Bibliography" and put the Bibliography on the last page. Will it work if I do it another way??

    Thanks so much,

    Jim

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  • jwilentz
    Has anyone else gotten this feature to work and if so how??
  • adamsmith
    If you use a style that actually uses footnotes -- like Chicago Manual -- that uses native Word notes, which will work as described. Since you said "footnotes" that's what I assume you used.
    Numeric citation styles like NEJM (or Vancouver or AMA) work completely differently under the hood and linking has been requested a bunch (both for these and author/year styles) but is a fairly complex problem to solve given how citations are generated by Zotero and likely won't happen any time soon. There are some custom macros on the forums that can kind of get you there, but it'll be a bit fragile.
  • jwilentz
    Got it. That makes sense. Is there a medical style you can recommend that mimics the NEJM style but preserves the back reference linkage for cursor and page focus to the text?
  • adamsmith
    No -- virtually no medical styles (except medical ethics or medical history) use note styles. They're almost all more or less Vancouver (which, after all, is created by the International Consortium of Medical Journal Editors), i.e. numeric
  • jwilentz
    Found that macro "ZoteroLinkAuthorDateCitations @gwyn-hopkins," but looks too complex for me and also potentially fragile. Would really be amazing to have the note capacity for the NEJM type numeric style. The Chicago Manual type style just wouldn't hack it in the med publishing field. Love Zotero with ease of use etc. Will check to see if EndNote can do the linkage in the NEJM style, but I really don't want to switch.

    Thanks,

    Jim
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