Mark references in Zotero that have been cited in a Microsoft Word document

chrisrider

I would like to know if anyone has found a way to show which references have or have not been used in a microsoft word document? When writing papers I tend to collect large numbers of references in a zotero collection and then add them when I come to the relevant section in my writing. I would really like to be able to identify those that I have not used in my documents so that I can either add them to the paper or delete them from the collection. Any help would be very much appreciated.

adamsmith

there is currently no technical way of doing that and I don't think it's forthcoming any time soon.
But you could justcompare a bibliography created with your collection with one created within the document - should be a pretty fast process.

mronkko

There are a couple of related threads:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9417/count-how-many-times-a-reference-is-cited/#Item_3

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6428/make-a-collection-from-plugin/#Item_1

chrisrider

Thank you for your comments! I seems that I posted this to the correct part of the website and that there is at least a little demand for this feature. Hopefully it is something that could be included in a later release.

partnoonein

Use the Reference Extractor online tool https://rintze.zelle.me/ref-extractor tool for references. It will select the referenced items in zotero (from Browser page)