Upgrade StorageImporting biblio info from a list of footnotes
I'm halfway through a longish paper and have decided to switch over to Zotero to manage citations and build a bibliography. In my Word document, I have maybe 40 footnotes, most of which contain all needed bibliographic information.
Word lets me select all footnotes and paste them into a new Word document. From there, I can remove ibids and other unnecessary info and adapt page ranges to conform to what's needed in a bibliography.
I'd rather not manually rework every footnote citation. Is there a way to import all this into Zotero so that it recognizes standard (Chicago M.S., in this case) footnote style and puts info in the necessary fields?
Zotero does so much other magical stuff that I figured it was worth asking.
Thank you.
Word lets me select all footnotes and paste them into a new Word document. From there, I can remove ibids and other unnecessary info and adapt page ranges to conform to what's needed in a bibliography.
I'd rather not manually rework every footnote citation. Is there a way to import all this into Zotero so that it recognizes standard (Chicago M.S., in this case) footnote style and puts info in the necessary fields?
Zotero does so much other magical stuff that I figured it was worth asking.
Thank you.
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FreeCite looked the most promising, but it's apparently retired. The former FreeCite page suggests https://anystyle.io/, which actually did a pretty good job. I produced usable copy from my running list of footnotes, though a lot of clean-up was necessary. Of course, it did much better working from a draft bibliography that I manually produced from my own footnotes. Now I'm trying to decide if the old-fashioned way is better in the end, but it's nice to have options and to see how much my old computer can do -- when loaded with the right code and fed reasonable input, that is.