Creating Bibliography (not from citations in document)

lubar

I'm creating a stand-alone bibliography (not one based on the footnotes in a document). I'd like to use Zotero by adding what's usually in a footnote (a full CMOS citation) into the document proper. I want to keep the links to my Zotero library live so that it's easy to fix mistakes. (That is, I don't want to create a bibliography by using the "Create Bibliography from Item" feature. I can do this by adding a footnote and cutting and pasting, but it seems there should be an easier way. Any suggestions?

damnation

If I understand correctly you want to have the text from the footnotes within your actual text while also maintaining those active, updatable citations.

You could just modify CMOS to be an in-text (and note note) style. Then it'll just put the footnote text wherever your cursor was and NOT create footnotes. You'd need to modify two small things in the code to achieve that.

adamsmith

I don't think there's a way to create a bibliography in Word that will remain synced with changes in Zotero, I'm afraid (not a terribly common request, either, though it comes up occasionally). The only tools that do do this are online tools that sync Zotero bibliographies with websites (like Kerko and Wordpress)

A workaround I could see is to modify Chicago into a numeric style (like Vancouver) in text, then add all items into a single citation that will look something like (1-107) and then insert the bibliography. The advantage over the option suggested by damnation would be that Zotero/CSL doesn't do line breaks for in-text citations, so with the in text version, you'd have to insert every citation individually to get them on new lines (rather than a giant 'blob')