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Hello, I am a total beginner with Zotero and citations in general. I have installed Zotero on my Mac, plus the add in in Word. I have selected Chicago style. I have a few questions. I know I must sound totally dumb, but I just can't figure out these things.
1) When I insert a citation in my Word document, it inserts a number in htat place and then creates a footnote on that page. However, I don't wan this. I want the author name and year, or whatever is correct for Chicago, in the text and then just the total bibliography in the end. How do I do this?
2) I had already imported all my pdf documents into Zotero. However, it doesnt seem to be able to cite from them. Do I need to import them in a certain format? Or do I need to download them again in Firefox, and then import each of them into Zotero from there?
Many thanks
Sonja
1) When I insert a citation in my Word document, it inserts a number in htat place and then creates a footnote on that page. However, I don't wan this. I want the author name and year, or whatever is correct for Chicago, in the text and then just the total bibliography in the end. How do I do this?
2) I had already imported all my pdf documents into Zotero. However, it doesnt seem to be able to cite from them. Do I need to import them in a certain format? Or do I need to download them again in Firefox, and then import each of them into Zotero from there?
Many thanks
Sonja
(2) Rigt click on the PDF in Zotero (you can select multiple at a time) and choose Retrieve Metadata for PDF. Zotero will try to find the reference data for the items. If it can't find the information for some, you can right-click on those and choose Create Parent Item and enter the information manually.
Moving forward, you will want to import items into Zotero using the Zotero button in your browser:
https://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_library