Capture Screenshot of a citation

mpinsley
When I am citing a part of a website or a PDF file, I also need to take a screenshot of the area of the webpage and/or PDF

We need to maintain work papers on everything that we cite. Because the web changes frequently, we need to be able to keep a copy of anything we are citing. The easiest way is a screen shot.

Typically we would keep this in a document along side of the citation. Is there a way to do this in Zotero or some other recommendation?

Thanks
Mark
  • adamsmith
    Zotero's snapshots (which it automatically takes when you're adding a website) are just that.
  • mpinsley
    ok then I must be doing something wrong...how do I export the snapshots? And how can I do the same for a PDF...for example a PDF maybe 500 pages, but I only need to store 1 page
  • mpinsley
    sorry and how do I hightlight (in some way) a portion of the snapshot...even just a link to documenation will help. I must be missing it.
  • adamsmith
    I guess I'm not clear about your requirements, so can't really speak to those questions.

    You can open the snapshots in your browser and they reflect the page as it is. You can't easily annotate it, though a tool like hypothes.is could work depending on the set-up.

    If you needs specific highlighted excerpts as screenthots, Zotero has no way to automate that. You'd have to just take screenshots, save them, and drag them to the Zotero item in question. I'll note that from an academic perspective, that's not the right approach to combat linkrot.
Sign In or Register to comment.