Word documents sent by email

SebasON

Hi everyone!

I have a document in Word with Zotero references inserted, so the citations and bibliography are all dynamically linked to Zotero. However, when I send the document to someone else (or even to myself by email), the Zotero links seem to be lost, and the document just shows plain text for the citations and bibliography. This means that if I or the recipient want to add or update any references, we have to manually reinsert them into the document, which is very inconvenient.

My question is: When sending a document that includes Zotero references, how can I keep the references "linked" so they’re still editable in Zotero on the other end?

dstillman

It's just a file. If you save it in a different format or open it with another tool (e.g., if clicking it in your email opens it in Word online), that could cause the citations to be lost, but if you just send a .docx file and open it in Word, that's no different from sending any other kind of file and opening it in its respective application.

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/existing_citations_not_detected