Feature request: Mixing in-text and note citations in the same style/document

erppu

I could use the ability to use both in-text and note citations in the same document. Currenly, Zotero does not support this, so either notes or in-text citations need to be handled manually, which means that the References-list needs to be also edited manually.

Ideally, there would be a way to specify which kind of citation a document type uses in the CSL style. This however would probably require changes to the CSL language itself, and thus is not an option. The other way would be to be able to choose, which style to use when making a citation, maybe so that there is a default and you can choose to change the style if you want.

I haven't used Mendeley, but heard that it has a feature like this. I understand that this is probably a niche feature request, but it would still be nice.

adamsmith

I'm pretty sure Mendeley, which uses the same CSL styles, doesn't do this either.

Could you provide an example with a bit more context? I think you can get to a workable solution using existing CSL, but I want to understand exactly what you need

erppu

Thanks for the reply! I tried to check out Mendeley to find out if it has the feature I mentioned, but couldn't try it because it apparently doesn't support LibreOffice. But the way I understood it works there is that you can switch between different styles in the same document and that way get footnotes and in-text citations.

My problem is that I study law, and the citation guide of my university requires almost all citations to be made in footnotes. However, citing court cases is done in in-text citations. Thus, I need to have in-text citations and footnotes in the same document and would like to use Zotero's reference list feature to manage my citations.

While thinking how to explain this, I think I figured out a quite simple solution. I didn't realise that I could use an in-text citation CSL style to place "in-text citations" into footnotes. I have to manually create a footnote, but other than that this solves the problem entirely. Thanks for your help, I probably wouldn't have discovered this without your comment! :D

adamsmith

yup, that's exactly what I'd have recommended.