Questions about Zotero field code in Word

syize · 2025-03-30T12:23:22+00:00

Hi,

I have some questions about Zotero field code in Word. There is a lot of information about articles in Zotero citation, even including the article's abstract, which seems useless to generate the citation text to be displayed. Will they all be used to generate citations? Is there any documentation about Zotero field code that can help me understand it?

Thank you.

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adamsmith · 2025-03-30T13:09:29+00:00

The bulk of the field code is CSL JSON which includes all fields from Zotero that could possibly be used in a citation or bibliography (which includes the abstract, e.g. for annotated bibliographies). You can probably Google this, but if you have a specific question we can help here

dstillman · 2025-03-31T05:48:20+00:00

Re: abstract: https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/5160

pcinque · 2025-03-31T06:15:09+00:00

Pulling in the abstract for the field code would definitely have a performance penalty in Word. Especially if there is a lot of text in the abstract field.
Removing that would help. Most probably no one (or very few) would want to put the abstract into a bibliography!

aborel · 2025-03-31T06:34:12+00:00

There are definitely citation styles that require an abstract, such as https://editor.citationstyles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http://www.zotero.org/styles/health-economics

Are you experiencing a performance problem yourself?

pcinque · 2025-03-31T10:26:31+00:00

How about that! So many niche citation styles out there :)

aborel · 2025-03-31T13:06:31+00:00

And yet some people still want to customize them or invent new ones :-D