Zotero asking me to insert citation when I want to add a bibliography

nicsolomos

I am new to zotero. I am now having an issue that when I try to add a bibliography to a word document, it tells me that I have to add a citation first. I am using zotero for safari.

damnation

For the Zotero add-on to add a bibliography, you'd need to have items cited throughout the document. That's what that message says. Click in add/edit citation first, add a citation. Then you can add a bibliography.

nicsolomos

I am not citing within the document. These are just references used to create the document

damnation

Then you have to select the citations in your Zotero (the software) and export them.
See "Quick Copy" or "via Right click" here: https://www.zotero.org/support/creating_bibliographies

nicsolomos

I tried all of the above. Not able to do it. I have the references in a folder on Zotero. Exporting I don’t know where to export to? Also, when trying to drag, it puts 1. On the line above each reference.

adamsmith

If you just want a bibliography of items in Zotero, select them, right -click --> create bibliography

You probably want to read up or watch some videos on the cite functionality: understanding how the Word add-on works is very helpful