How to put continuous citation numbers into range???

Shanliangzi Liu

Say if I have continuous citation numbers from 8 to 16 after a same point, how to write to be 8-16 instead of 8910111213141516? When I write it to be 8-16(delete other numbers in the middle), corresponding references only 8 and 16 left, others are gone. Are there other specific buttons for these? Thanks so much!!!!

aurimas

I'm guessing that you are inserting these adjacent citations individually (i.e. you're clicking Insert Citation for each). This isn't obvious and Zotero could probably be doing a better job at it, but you need to insert the citations all at the same time. So when you click Insert Citation, you need to select all the citations in that single dialog. If you need to add more citations to the same spot later, select an existing citation and click Edit Citation, then add more citations to the list.

Unfortunately, at this point, your best bet is to print out your existing bibliography (also make a backup copy of the whole document), temporarily switch to an author-date style (e.g. Cell), go through each spot with multiple citations, select one of them, click Edit Citation, add the adjacent references, and then delete the adjacent references that get left over. Having the bibliography on hand will make it easy to figure out which references to insert. Once you're done, switch back to the numeric style you were using. Might want to delete the bibliography first if this is a large document to help speed things up. Re-insert it afterwards.

adamsmith

(If you happen to be using LibreOffice or OpenOffice and this is a longer document so it would take you significant time to do this I have an alternate solution for you, but it won't work in Word. Let me know if you're interested.)

Shanliangzi Liu

Thanks so much aurimas! I got it ! And I have another question, I found a paper that can not be added to zotero, are there any ways to deal with it? A lot of people cited this paper, maybe they used another software? Even no doi number in the paper, I can only download but cannot add. Thanks!

Whitney, R. The measurement of changes in human limb-volume by means of a mercury-inrubber strain gauge. J. Physiol. 1949, 109, Proc, 5.

Shanliangzi Liu

Thanks, adamsmith. I use word right now. But openoffice is much easier to use？？？I am interested.

aurimas

You can obviously add the reference manually, but you can also add it from places like here and here (just google for the title and you're bound to find a website that will let you add a reference automatically). Definitely check the metadata after importing.

adamsmith

I use word right now. But openoffice is much easier to use

no, not in general. There just happens to be a plugin available that lets you merge adjacent citations. If you don't have a ton of those I wouldn't worry about it.

Shanliangzi Liu

You did help me a lot, aurimas, thanks so much!