How to extract references from MS Word file
Hi all,
I am wondering if you can help me to learn how to transfer references from an MS Word file into Zotero? I mean, if I receive a Word file from my co-researcher, how can I extract all references in that file into my Zotero library so that I could start adding my new references. Thanks
I am wondering if you can help me to learn how to transfer references from an MS Word file into Zotero? I mean, if I receive a Word file from my co-researcher, how can I extract all references in that file into my Zotero library so that I could start adding my new references. Thanks
If they're active citations generated by Zotero or Mendeley, Zotero can just use them — they won't show up in your library, but you'll be able to select them in the "Cited" section of the citation dialog.
Otherwise, see Importing Formatted Bibliographies.
If you still have the references in a reference manager, you can export them from this program to a file format for exchanging bibliographic metadata, such as RIS or BibTeX, and then import this file into Zotero." ...........but its not extracting references from the file. I am not sure which tool was used to prepare the file. Thanks
So then you'll need to use the other instructions on the page to get data into Zotero, and then you would have to reinsert any existing citations using Zotero so that Zotero can properly generate citations and a bibliography based on the old and new citations.
I did not get your point "So then you'll need to use the other instructions on the page to get data into Zotero, and then you would have to reinsert any existing citations using Zotero so that Zotero can properly generate citations and a bibliography based on the old and new citations."
The linked page has a section on Plain-text citations and bibliographies -- that's what you have in your case.