+1 wishing to have an in-text citation option for my zotero bibliography.. astonishing (and a bit sad) to see this thread open since 2013.. and still no reply from zotero :(
Hello, I made a review of @cjac1 s word macro, because I also need the links and there were some issues with the script. You can use this as a basis, or adjust some parts to your needs. My citations are of the type [1], [2], [4]; or [1]-[3]; or [1], [2]-[5], and the macro (below) can handle all of these. Each Ref. has to be in brackets []. Every visible number of the citation block is converted to a hyperlink. I have tested it with my thesis (Word 2016, >70 references). It worked quite well, but i recommend to test it on a copy of your file. The changes are irreversible. I have mainly only standard references (articles, papers, thesis, books and book sections). I got a problem with a document type ref, but i fixed this (more or less). So in some special cases there are issues... maybe, I dont know.
Hyperlinks doesnt work in footnotes.
copy it: in Word Alt+F8; type any name --> create; copy+paste all of the code there, start it: in Word Alt+F8; choose ' ZoteroLinkCitation' --> run
Have Fun! And sry for the long post.
Public Sub ZoteroLinkCitation()
' get selected area (if applicable) Dim nStart&, nEnd& nStart = Selection.Start nEnd = Selection.End
' define variables Dim title As String Dim titleAnchor As String Dim style As String Dim fieldCode As String Dim numOrYear As String Dim pos&, n1&, n2&, n3&
' add bookmark for the Zotero bibliography With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks .Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="Zotero_Bibliography" .DefaultSorting = wdSortByName .ShowHidden = True End With
' loop through each field in the document For Each aField In ActiveDocument.Fields ' check if the field is a Zotero in-text reference '################################################## If InStr(aField.Code, "ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM") > 0 Then fieldCode = aField.Code '############# ' Prepare ' Plain citation== Format of Textfield shown ' must be in Brackets Dim plain_Cit As String plCitStrBeg = """plainCitation"":""[" plCitStrEnd = "]""" n1 = InStr(fieldCode, plCitStrBeg) n1 = n1 + Len(plCitStrBeg) n2 = InStr(Mid(fieldCode, n1, Len(fieldCode) - n1), plCitStrEnd) - 1 + n1 plain_Cit = Mid$(fieldCode, n1 - 1, n2 - n1 + 2) 'Reference 'as shown' in word as a string
'Title array in fieldCode (all referenced Titles within this field) Dim array_RefTitle(32) As String i = 0 Do While InStr(fieldCode, """title"":""") > 0 n1 = InStr(fieldCode, """title"":""") + Len("""title"":""") n2 = InStr(Mid(fieldCode, n1, Len(fieldCode) - n1), """,""") - 1 + n1 If n2 < n1 Then 'Exception the type 'Article' n2 = InStr(Mid(fieldCode, n1, Len(fieldCode) - n1), "}") - 1 + n1 - 1 End If array_RefTitle(i) = Mid(fieldCode, n1, n2 - n1) fieldCode = Mid(fieldCode, n2 + 1, Len(fieldCode) - n2 - 1) i = i + 1 Loop Titles_in_Cit = i
'Number array with References shown in PlainCit 'Numer is equal or less than Titels, depending on the type '[3], [8]-[10]; [2]-[4]; [2], [4], [5] ' All citations have to be in Brackets each! [3], [8] not [3, 8] ' This doesnt work otherwise! ' --> treatment of other delimiters could be implemented here Dim RefNumber(32) As String i = 0 Do While (InStr(plain_Cit, "]") Or InStr(plain_Cit, "[")) > 0 n1 = InStr(plain_Cit, "[") n2 = InStr(plain_Cit, "]") RefNumber(i) = Mid(plain_Cit, n1 + 1, n2 - (n1 + 1)) plain_Cit = Mid(plain_Cit, n2 + 1, Len(plain_Cit) - (n2 + 1) + 1) i = i + 1 Loop Refs_in_Cit = i
'treat only the shown references (skip the rest) '[3], [8]-[10] --> skip [9] 'Order of titles given from fieldcode, not checked! If Titles_in_Cit > Refs_in_Cit Then array_RefTitle(Refs_in_Cit - 1) = array_RefTitle(Titles_in_Cit - 1) i = 1 Do While Refs_in_Cit + i <= Titles_in_Cit array_RefTitle(Refs_in_Cit + i - 1) = "" i = i + 1 Loop End If
'############# 'Make the links For Refs = 0 To Refs_in_Cit - 1 Step 1 title = array_RefTitle(Refs) array_RefTitle(Refs) = "" ' make title a valid bookmark name titleAnchor = title titleAnchor = MakeValidBMName(titleAnchor)
' add bookmark for the reference within the bibliography Selection.Shrink With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks .Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:=titleAnchor .DefaultSorting = wdSortByName .ShowHidden = True End With
' jump back to the field aField.Select ' find and select the numeric part of the field which will become the hyperlink Selection.Find.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find .Text = RefNumber(Refs) .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute
numOrYear = Selection.Range.Text & ""
' store current style style = Selection.style ' Generate the Hyperlink -->Forward! ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Selection.Range, Address:="", SubAddress:=titleAnchor, ScreenTip:=lnkcap, TextToDisplay:="" & numOrYear ' reset the style Selection.style = style
' comment if you want standard link style aField.Select With Selection.Font .Underline = wdUnderlineNone .ColorIndex = wdBlack End With
Next Refs 'References in Cit
End If 'If Zotero-Field '#########################
Next aField ' next field
' go back to original range selected ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = False ActiveDocument.Range(nStart, nEnd).Select
End Sub Function MakeValidBMName(strIn As String) Dim pFirstChr As String Dim i As Long Dim tempStr As String strIn = Trim(strIn) pFirstChr = Left(strIn, 1) If Not pFirstChr Like "[A-Za-z]" Then strIn = "A_" & strIn End If For i = 1 To Len(strIn) Select Case Asc(Mid$(strIn, i, 1)) Case 49 To 57, 65 To 90, 97 To 122 tempStr = tempStr & Mid$(strIn, i, 1) Case Else tempStr = tempStr & "_" End Select Next i tempStr = Replace(tempStr, " ", " ") MakeValidBMName = Left(tempStr, 40) End Function
I have been writing a macro for libreoffice odt files. I assumed that the listing of references was by numbered paragraph, and therefore just made a bookmark called _Ref_n where n is the paragraph number, and linked from the citation number to that. This would be much shorter. Also similar procedure for author names (by this is not so accurate with multiple references where the first author is the same - links just to the first reference in the sequence, or to authors with say "van der" or some other lowercase prenom).
This thread is great and just what I'm looking for. I need to link citations in a PDF for a report I'm writing.
When I run the script though, the whole document appears to be blank. The word count still shows up, so it's doing something bad to the document, but I'm afraid I'm not enough of a programmer to understand what.
Thank you, @freim86 , for the work ! It's like magic !
I would like to update the instructions for those who are not on Windows: I copied the 2 parts of the script in a text file. Then open Tools > Macros > Visual Basic Editor . In there, I created a new module under Normal > Modules, and in that window I pasted everything from the text file. Save, close. Switch back to Word. You may need to restart it. Then, to run it, you open Tools > Macros > "Macros...". You should see the name "ZoteroLinkCitation" in there. Select it, then click Run. Wait. Voilà !
So yes, @Phill_Jones , it works for me. But I have a small 5-page document.
This might help someone: In order to run @freim86's makro I had to replace "ActiveWindow" with "Application.ActiveWindow" (i.e. add "application.") And now it works perfectly. The links also stay when converting the document to a pdf which is great.
Hello everybody. I went through this thread which was initiated as far as... 2010. I'd like to join my voice to those who are requesting this in-text link between citation and bibliography capability to be developed. It might represent a fair amount of work but would be extremely useful. Indeed, at least in sciences, more and more articles are published online or distributed as pdf files that must incorporate links between citation ad their corresponding full reference, often grouped at the end of the article.
@adomasven wrote on January 16, 2019: "We'd like to have this, but it would require a rather large amount of work for a feature that's not that high on the priority list so we have no plans for the near future." Have the priorities of dev changed since then? End 2023 may be considered as the "near future" of 2019, no? ;-) Should it not be the case, how can we push a feature higher in the list of priority? I read that a lot of people are waiting for this feature to be implemented. I'm new on Zotero and I am amazed by the capabilities and ergonomics on this application. But I was a bit disappointed when I realized that no hyperlink had been created between the in-text citations and the reference compiled at the end of the article I was writing. I thought that, by using a reference management software, these links would have automatically been created. But maybe the limitation comes from word itself?
This is a super useful feature. I request Zotero developers please consider this feature as the priority. Whenever I review any manuscript, I often need to check the details of the bibliographic information from the reference list at the end of the document. If the feature allowed me to click on the in-text citation and take me to that specific bibliographic entry in the reference list, it would be super useful. Currently, EndNote has this feature. I strongly recommend developing this feature within Zotero.
I’ve developed a VBA script called ZoteroLinkCitation, inspired by discussions on this forum about linking in-text citations directly to their bibliography entries in Word documents when using Zotero.
Features:
- Currently 15 citation styles are tested in my thesis (>130 references), including APA, IEEE, ACS, Chicago, etc. - Detects the citation style used in the document automatically. - Maintains Zotero field integrity post-linking. - Allows customization of link appearance (color, size, font) in Word. - Correctly handles multiple references in the Author-Date style where the first author is the same.
In this repo I have written a detailed step-by-step guide on how to use Word macros. Requests for supporting other citation styles can be made in the repo issue. I'll be happy to maintain the VBA script on an ongoing basis, as well as answer any questions about its use in repo issues (not in Zotero forum).
Thank you very much for the work put in the script! I am currently looking for such a solution to no avail... I will report back after trying your script.
@altairwei Thank you for that! It worked for me after spending a long time trying to find a solution. I had a bit of trouble because I had removed some brackets from the references in the word document but an easy fix I did is to take a derivative of your code such that it makes the change on the particular reference I have selected only (instead of doing the whole document at once). Thanks again!
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astonishing (and a bit sad) to see this thread open since 2013..
and still no reply from zotero :(
I made a review of @cjac1 s word macro, because I also need the links and there were some issues with the script.
You can use this as a basis, or adjust some parts to your needs. My citations are of the type [1], [2], [4]; or [1]-[3]; or [1], [2]-[5], and the macro (below) can handle all of these. Each Ref. has to be in brackets [].
Every visible number of the citation block is converted to a hyperlink. I have tested it with my thesis (Word 2016, >70 references). It worked quite well, but i recommend to test it on a copy of your file. The changes are irreversible.
I have mainly only standard references (articles, papers, thesis, books and book sections). I got a problem with a document type ref, but i fixed this (more or less). So in some special cases there are issues... maybe, I dont know.
Hyperlinks doesnt work in footnotes.
copy it: in Word Alt+F8; type any name --> create; copy+paste all of the code there,
start it: in Word Alt+F8; choose ' ZoteroLinkCitation' --> run
Have Fun! And sry for the long post.
Public Sub ZoteroLinkCitation()
' get selected area (if applicable)
Dim nStart&, nEnd&
nStart = Selection.Start
nEnd = Selection.End
' toggle screen updating
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
' define variables
Dim title As String
Dim titleAnchor As String
Dim style As String
Dim fieldCode As String
Dim numOrYear As String
Dim pos&, n1&, n2&, n3&
ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = True
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
' find the Zotero bibliography
With Selection.Find
.Text = "^d ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL"
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute
' add bookmark for the Zotero bibliography
With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="Zotero_Bibliography"
.DefaultSorting = wdSortByName
.ShowHidden = True
End With
' loop through each field in the document
For Each aField In ActiveDocument.Fields
' check if the field is a Zotero in-text reference
'##################################################
If InStr(aField.Code, "ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM") > 0 Then
fieldCode = aField.Code
'#############
' Prepare
' Plain citation== Format of Textfield shown
' must be in Brackets
Dim plain_Cit As String
plCitStrBeg = """plainCitation"":""["
plCitStrEnd = "]"""
n1 = InStr(fieldCode, plCitStrBeg)
n1 = n1 + Len(plCitStrBeg)
n2 = InStr(Mid(fieldCode, n1, Len(fieldCode) - n1), plCitStrEnd) - 1 + n1
plain_Cit = Mid$(fieldCode, n1 - 1, n2 - n1 + 2)
'Reference 'as shown' in word as a string
'Title array in fieldCode (all referenced Titles within this field)
Dim array_RefTitle(32) As String
i = 0
Do While InStr(fieldCode, """title"":""") > 0
n1 = InStr(fieldCode, """title"":""") + Len("""title"":""")
n2 = InStr(Mid(fieldCode, n1, Len(fieldCode) - n1), """,""") - 1 + n1
If n2 < n1 Then 'Exception the type 'Article'
n2 = InStr(Mid(fieldCode, n1, Len(fieldCode) - n1), "}") - 1 + n1 - 1
End If
array_RefTitle(i) = Mid(fieldCode, n1, n2 - n1)
fieldCode = Mid(fieldCode, n2 + 1, Len(fieldCode) - n2 - 1)
i = i + 1
Loop
Titles_in_Cit = i
'Number array with References shown in PlainCit
'Numer is equal or less than Titels, depending on the type
'[3], [8]-[10]; [2]-[4]; [2], [4], [5]
' All citations have to be in Brackets each! [3], [8] not [3, 8]
' This doesnt work otherwise!
' --> treatment of other delimiters could be implemented here
Dim RefNumber(32) As String
i = 0
Do While (InStr(plain_Cit, "]") Or InStr(plain_Cit, "[")) > 0
n1 = InStr(plain_Cit, "[")
n2 = InStr(plain_Cit, "]")
RefNumber(i) = Mid(plain_Cit, n1 + 1, n2 - (n1 + 1))
plain_Cit = Mid(plain_Cit, n2 + 1, Len(plain_Cit) - (n2 + 1) + 1)
i = i + 1
Loop
Refs_in_Cit = i
'treat only the shown references (skip the rest)
'[3], [8]-[10] --> skip [9]
'Order of titles given from fieldcode, not checked!
If Titles_in_Cit > Refs_in_Cit Then
array_RefTitle(Refs_in_Cit - 1) = array_RefTitle(Titles_in_Cit - 1)
i = 1
Do While Refs_in_Cit + i <= Titles_in_Cit
array_RefTitle(Refs_in_Cit + i - 1) = ""
i = i + 1
Loop
End If
'#############
'Make the links
For Refs = 0 To Refs_in_Cit - 1 Step 1
title = array_RefTitle(Refs)
array_RefTitle(Refs) = ""
' make title a valid bookmark name
titleAnchor = title
titleAnchor = MakeValidBMName(titleAnchor)
ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = False
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="Zotero_Bibliography"
'' locate the corresponding reference in the bibliography
'' by searching for its title
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = Left(title, 255)
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute
' select the whole caption (for mouseover tooltip)
Selection.MoveStartUntil ("["), Count:=wdBackward
Selection.MoveEndUntil (vbBack)
lnkcap = "[" & Selection.Text
lnkcap = Left(lnkcap, 70)
' add bookmark for the reference within the bibliography
Selection.Shrink
With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:=titleAnchor
.DefaultSorting = wdSortByName
.ShowHidden = True
End With
' jump back to the field
aField.Select
' find and select the numeric part of the field which will become the hyperlink
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = RefNumber(Refs)
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute
numOrYear = Selection.Range.Text & ""
' store current style
style = Selection.style
' Generate the Hyperlink -->Forward!
ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Selection.Range, Address:="", SubAddress:=titleAnchor, ScreenTip:=lnkcap, TextToDisplay:="" & numOrYear
' reset the style
Selection.style = style
' comment if you want standard link style
aField.Select
With Selection.Font
.Underline = wdUnderlineNone
.ColorIndex = wdBlack
End With
Next Refs 'References in Cit
End If 'If Zotero-Field
'#########################
Next aField ' next field
' go back to original range selected
ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = False
ActiveDocument.Range(nStart, nEnd).Select
End Sub
Function MakeValidBMName(strIn As String)
Dim pFirstChr As String
Dim i As Long
Dim tempStr As String
strIn = Trim(strIn)
pFirstChr = Left(strIn, 1)
If Not pFirstChr Like "[A-Za-z]" Then
strIn = "A_" & strIn
End If
For i = 1 To Len(strIn)
Select Case Asc(Mid$(strIn, i, 1))
Case 49 To 57, 65 To 90, 97 To 122
tempStr = tempStr & Mid$(strIn, i, 1)
Case Else
tempStr = tempStr & "_"
End Select
Next i
tempStr = Replace(tempStr, " ", " ")
MakeValidBMName = Left(tempStr, 40)
End Function
Also similar procedure for author names (by this is not so accurate with multiple references where the first author is the same - links just to the first reference in the sequence, or to authors with say "van der" or some other lowercase prenom).
When I run the script though, the whole document appears to be blank. The word count still shows up, so it's doing something bad to the document, but I'm afraid I'm not enough of a programmer to understand what.
Have folks gotten this script to work?
I would like to update the instructions for those who are not on Windows:
I copied the 2 parts of the script in a text file.
Then open Tools > Macros > Visual Basic Editor . In there, I created a new module under Normal > Modules, and in that window I pasted everything from the text file. Save, close. Switch back to Word. You may need to restart it.
Then, to run it, you open Tools > Macros > "Macros...". You should see the name "ZoteroLinkCitation" in there. Select it, then click Run. Wait. Voilà !
So yes, @Phill_Jones , it works for me. But I have a small 5-page document.
It seems that it would be possible to create an option "link citations to bibliography" before exporting to PDF.
Is there any news about the integration of this hyperlink to the bibliography functionality ?
In all the solutions proposed by the different contributors, does one of them work with APA citations like (Author, date) ?
Thanks for your help!
This might help someone: In order to run @freim86's makro I had to replace "ActiveWindow" with "Application.ActiveWindow" (i.e. add "application.") And now it works perfectly. The links also stay when converting the document to a pdf which is great.
thank you @freim86 for your work!
Is there any hope for this in-text citation link to bibliography evolution to be integrated into Zotero?
Unfortunately, the methods proposed in this topic do not work for the APA standard
(Author, date).
Thanks for your help!
I went through this thread which was initiated as far as... 2010.
I'd like to join my voice to those who are requesting this in-text link between citation and bibliography capability to be developed. It might represent a fair amount of work but would be extremely useful.
Indeed, at least in sciences, more and more articles are published online or distributed as pdf files that must incorporate links between citation ad their corresponding full reference, often grouped at the end of the article.
@adomasven wrote on January 16, 2019:
"We'd like to have this, but it would require a rather large amount of work for a feature that's not that high on the priority list so we have no plans for the near future."
Have the priorities of dev changed since then?
End 2023 may be considered as the "near future" of 2019, no? ;-)
Should it not be the case, how can we push a feature higher in the list of priority?
I read that a lot of people are waiting for this feature to be implemented.
I'm new on Zotero and I am amazed by the capabilities and ergonomics on this application.
But I was a bit disappointed when I realized that no hyperlink had been created between the in-text citations and the reference compiled at the end of the article I was writing. I thought that, by using a reference management software, these links would have automatically been created.
But maybe the limitation comes from word itself?
array_RefTitle(Refs_in_Cit - 1) = array_RefTitle(Titles_in_Cit - 1)
?
Whenever I review any manuscript, I often need to check the details of the bibliographic information from the reference list at the end of the document. If the feature allowed me to click on the in-text citation and take me to that specific bibliographic entry in the reference list, it would be super useful.
Currently, EndNote has this feature. I strongly recommend developing this feature within Zotero.
I’ve developed a VBA script called ZoteroLinkCitation, inspired by discussions on this forum about linking in-text citations directly to their bibliography entries in Word documents when using Zotero.
Features:
- Currently 15 citation styles are tested in my thesis (>130 references), including APA, IEEE, ACS, Chicago, etc.
- Detects the citation style used in the document automatically.
- Maintains Zotero field integrity post-linking.
- Allows customization of link appearance (color, size, font) in Word.
- Correctly handles multiple references in the Author-Date style where the first author is the same.
Project and details here: https://github.com/altairwei/ZoteroLinkCitation
In this repo I have written a detailed step-by-step guide on how to use Word macros. Requests for supporting other citation styles can be made in the repo issue. I'll be happy to maintain the VBA script on an ongoing basis, as well as answer any questions about its use in repo issues (not in Zotero forum).
Thank you very much for the work put in the script! I am currently looking for such a solution to no avail... I will report back after trying your script.
Dear Zotero team, please put this feature at the top of the priority list.
Thank you very much. It worked for my thesis with more than 400 refs and the PDF also have the linked citations.