Importing references from older dos-based program SQ SquareNote now in Word

corkyreinhart · February 10, 2009

Does anyone have experience or a solution (or help of any sort) regarding importing to Zotero, lengthy bibliographies (with abstracts and sometimes notes) now in Word format but originally compiled in an older SquareNote (dos) format?

bdarcus · February 10, 2009

Search the forums; this has come up many times. IIRC, the short answer is there's not much you can do; such bibliographies are in an unstructured format that is really hard for any application to understand.

dstillman · February 11, 2009

http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_formatted_bibliographies

Assuming they resemble regular bibliographies now, the original format doesn't make much difference.