I have a full citation but no DOI, Can zotero import it ?

Coname · 2025-03-28T14:17:34+00:00

Hello

In case where I just have a citation only, How to import it to zotero ?

Example:
MLA:
Dafoe, Allan. "AI governance: a research agenda." Governance of AI Program, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford: Oxford, UK 1442 (2018): 1443.‏

BibTeX:
@article{dafoe2018ai,
title={AI governance: a research agenda},
author={Dafoe, Allan},
journal={Governance of AI Program, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford: Oxford, UK},
volume={1442},
pages={1443},
year={2018}
}

adamsmith · 2025-03-28T14:46:10+00:00

If you have the bibtex, you can just copy it to your clipboard and then select "Import from Clipboard" from the File menu, so that's what you should do here.

If you just have a formatted citation, see
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_formatted_bibliographies#plain-text_citations_and_bibliographies (you can also ask an LLM to convert it to bibtex or RIS which tends to work pretty well)