How do I insert a 'comment' endnote which contains no citations?

AMSuarez · May 31, 2012

The title says it all, basically. Sometimes I wish to use an endnote to make an aside comment or note which would be out of place directly in the text. These sometimes do not contain any citations, so I'm unsure of how to insert these alongside zotero endnotes. Is this possible in some way? This is often used in papers in my field, though we rarely use (Author, date) citations, so I'm unsure how my 'notes' will jive with that style...

Thanks for the help,

-Al

Gracile · May 31, 2012

You just have to insert your endnote/footnote as you would do without Zotero, i.e. just use the options of your word processor.
E.g.:
-with Libre Office;
-with MS-Word (2007).

adamsmith · May 31, 2012

I assume you're talking about citation styles like Nature or Vancouver, where you don't actually use endnotes, but rather a numerical bibliography (that you create by clicking "insert bibliography" in the Zotero word/LO plugin)?
For those there is not elegant solution, though you can insert a standalone note as a citation to serve as a placeholder and then manually edit the respective entry in the bibliography.

If you actually mean endnotes - as in styles used in most of the humanities, like the Chicago Manual, you can just use the insert endnote function of your word processor.

AMSuarez · May 31, 2012

Yes adamsmith, I was talking about the numbered citations as in Nature. I guess I'll try adding a 'blank' citation to my library and edit the note in place.

Thank you for the quick responses.