Notes exported to word

sendsoogle

I want to use the old fashioned Oxford style of footnoting info at the bottom of a page. I have tried writing a standalone note or even one attached to another item and then adding it in to my word document but only the first line of the note is recreated at the foot of the page. Please can someone help this is driving me crazy! NB I love Z but am fast falling out of it with only a few weeks to complete my dissertation.

bdarcus

You're being a little vague. What do you mean by "adding"? I, for example, have no problem doing a select-all and copy-and-paste into another document. Is that what you're doing?

sendsoogle

Hi thanks for the reply - I will try and elaborate. I currently use Z to cite my source for say a quote from an article, I use the add in tool at the top of Word and it takes me to Zotero and all the items in my library, I select the item and Z places the name of the article, author etc at the foot of the page in my word document. All fine so far.
But, if I don't want to cite an article but instead want to write a footnote of my own and reproduce it at the bottom of my document (with a number reference allocated to it in the document) I go to add in and select the note I have written myself from Z, however when I then scroll down the page to look at the note it has only reproduced the first line of text of the note - I don't know what has happened to the rest. This is a real problem because I want to reproduce quite large amounts of text as footnotes and not as part of the paper itself - only additional information which is useful to the reader.
Hope I have been a bit clearer
Sue

arggem

If I understand you correctly, you using the Word Plugin to add a regular text footnote (from a note in Zotero).

The plugin is only for citations, not text notes.

I think what you want to do is:

1. click the insert footnote icon in Word
2. Select note from the middle pane in the Zotero
3. Drag and drop the whole note into the footnote.

OR

3. Select the portion of the note in the right hand pane and either drag and drop or copy and paste into the footnote.

Again, you can't use the citation plugin for this. The plugin is for citations, not notes.

Or have I misunderstood what you are trying to do?

sendsoogle

Thank you SO much you have both understood and answered my question. Clearly a case of ignorance on my part but now resolved. Whilst we seem to be speaking a similar language perhaps you can assist with an earlier question I posed but was never resolved - I wanted a citation style which included the PLACE of publication - we are told this is Oxford style and the place is required - unfortunately the only one near to the oxford style in Zotero does not capture or publish the place. I was answered in an earlier forum and I did try and find the suggestion made to me but I couldn't grasp how to find all the other styles available - only the ones offered when you open a document and go to add in a citation - sorry I am garbling again - the discussion topic was Oxford style referencing from me - maybe you could help again?

arggem

I assume you are talking about this thread? http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4683/oxford-style-referencing/

Did you click on the words "styles page"? That's actually a link that takes you here: http://www.zotero.org/styles

Also, please use that other thread for further help on the Oxford issue, not this one.