Zotero citations in Markdown documents?

penyuan

Hello,

According to the Pandoc Markdown extension user guide, it has support for citations:

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#citations-1

Does anyone have experience using Pandoc, or any other Markdown extension, with a Zotero library? Would I be able to add a citation in my Markdown document, and have it pull information from my Zotero library when I export it?

Thank you!

fbennett

Someone may be able to point to a zotero->pandoc bridge project, but you will probably find it simpler to export Zotero items in a format compatible with pandoc/citeproc-hs, and use that directly.

Bridging Zotero to a batch formatting engine (BibTeX, pandoc, Python docutils) is not impossible (zotero-plain works that way) but it's hard, in part because of the need to map Zotero IDs to some sort of human-readable identifier.

penyuan

I see, thanks for your answer! OK I will export my items to from Zotero before using them in Markdown for now.

Hopefully one day lightweight markup languages like this can access Zotero directly! Does this depend more on making changes on Zotero's side, or more on changing the implementation of those markup languages?

adamsmith

there is zotero-plain that's optimized for use with ReStructured Text already, so it's mostly making this available from the markup side, though zotero-plain uses a (pretty elegant) hack to solve the issue raised by fbennett above about identifiers, which would more ideally be solved on the Zotero side.

norman_s

For Dokuwiki [1] there are Plugins for Pandoc/ (Multi-)Markdown[2] and Zotero[3] available. I will try it in near future.

[1] Dokuwiki: www.dokuwiki.org

[2] Dowkuwiki-Markdown-Plugin:
http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:markdownextra

[3] Dokuwiki-Zotero-Plugin:
http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:zotero

Take a look at my profile page.