Creating a citation/bibliography for a pdf

elizahawke

Using National Library of Medicine citation/bibliography style, I would like to cite a pdf from the JAVMA. When I right click on the pdf & choose create bibliography from item or retrieve metadata for pdf, I get the respective messages - "The items you have selected contain no references. Please select one or more references and try again" and "no matching references found". So what do I do? I am not a very computer literate person and this is frustrating.

Thanks for your help.
Chris

adamsmith

You'll want to make sure the PDF is attached to a Zotero item which holds the citation data used to generate the citation. In many cases this can be done automatically using:
https://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata

@Dan/@aurimas -- we should put automating that process higher on the agenda. Been getting a lot of questions about that lately, it's clearly a cause of confusion.

elizahawke

As mentioned in my initial post, I tried this and got the message "no matching references found".

adamsmith

sorry, missed that somehow. You'll need to use "Create Parent Item" and fill the data in manually then.

elizahawke

Thank you!