Confirming - there's really no way to have separate bibliographies within same Word document?

laurelel

Hi, I have been reading that there's no way to combine multiple dissertation/thesis chapters into a single Word document and maintain separate Lit Cited/References/Bibliographies for each chapter (unless you unlink them, of course). This is a major concern for me because compiling everything with a unified, cross-referenced table of contents and lists of figures and tables in Word will take time. And I am still trying to fix some things within the text, which will include adding/editing in-text citations and culling extraneous text (which may remove some citations). I know separate bibliographies in the same Word docx is possible with EndNote but didn't realize until now that it's apparently not possible with Zotero.

Please tell me that this has been fixed and/or that someone recently discovered a workaround...?

adamsmith

Correct, can't be done beyond the workarounds in the thread you already posted to, i.e., can't be done with active citations in place in the same document.

laurelel

To confirm, I'm seeing some people talking about this reference extractor tool: https://rintze.zelle.me/ref-extractor/

Might that tool work for my purposes? That is, extract the references (once for each chapter in separate docs) to its own collection folder. But then it's just plain text and still not live. But if one is careful to keep any new citations in the correct collections by chapter, then it would just require regenerating the bibliographies each time they need updating in the main document. It might not be useful enough at my very late (about to submit dissertation) stage compared to copying and pasting each chapter out to generate the bib, unlinking, and then pasting the bibliography back in as text-only.

I'm guessing the key thing to be careful about there is pasting each chapter in a separate, throwaway document before unlinking the citations, yeah?