I installed Zotero Standalone instead of with plugins

Geminiguy90028

I tried to install the plugins after my professor suggested that I need to do this because the little image in the address bar that I am supposed to click on to save the doc file does not appear. It seems that the re-installing does not work and I find myself having to manually copy/paste the doi to get the article information into Zotero. Also, when I try to create a bibliography page the word, <bibliography> is pasted, but the bib page does not appear. I think this is also because I have the standalone version installed. Does anyone know how I can fix my issues?

Geminiguy90028

I should also mention that the Zotero plugins are in the MS Word program even though the browser address bar does not show the little image I am supposed to click on to save the article info into Zotero.

adamsmith

Which browser are you using? If you're using Zotero Standalone, you should have at least one browser add-on installed in addition. They're all listed here:
http://www.zotero.org/download/

As for the Word functionality--are you able to insert citations? Do those look right? Which citation style?

Geminiguy90028

I'm using Firefox 32.0.3 and I am now able to create bibliographies with Word. I downloaded the add-on as you suggested and I now see the little image to save articles that I click on in the address bar. Thank you. :)

I have another question about Zotero: I have articles on my hard drive that I would like to add into Zotero so that I can add them to the Bibliography with ease. Is there a way to import articles from the hard drive into the Zotero database?

janew1

There are tutorials on this site, including one about adding items to Zotero. The easiest way is to just drag and drop them. But the tutorials -- which are short and straightforward -- will help you out.

Geminiguy90028

Thank you very much for the suggestion of dragging and dropping. I had tried it before when I had the inadvertently installed the standalone version and it didn't work. I tried it again now that I was able to install the add-ins and it worked. Thank you so much. :)

adamsmith

I have a step-by-step for adding PDFs specifically here:
http://zotero-manual.github.io/zotero-manual/adding-items#retrieve_metadata_for_pdfs