Bibliography from citation keys in MS Word?

Wodecki

Hi,

I've just finished my book, using Markdown editors, where I inserted references as citation keys. Finally, I exported everything (hundreds of citations...) to MS Word.
At the moment, I have a MS Word docx file with references in a pure text form.
A sample text (in a MS Word file) looks like this:

From [@andy2020] we can see that...

(no extra MS Word fields included, just pure text)

Obviously, I have mylibrary.bib file generated by Zotero, which looks like this:
@article{andy2020,
title = {Reinforcement Learning: {{A}} Survey},
volume = {4},
shorttitle = {Reinforcement Learning},
journaltitle = {Journal of artificial intelligence research},
date = {1996},
pages = {237--285},
author = {Kaelbling, Leslie Pack and Littman, Michael L. and Moore, Andrew W.}
}

Is this possible to generate bibliography out of my MS Word docx file??? That's really important to me: my book has hundreds of references, and deadline is coming...
I tried docx > pandoc-citeproc > docx, but it didn't work...

I would really appreciate Your help.

Many thanks in advance :)

Andy

bwiernik

Rather than exporting from Markdown to Word using whatever editor program you used, do it using pandoc and provide a CSL-JSON (preferred) or Bib file to it with your item data. pandoc will convert all of your keys to citations/bibliographies. https://pandoc.org/

bwiernik

When you say pandoc didn’t work, what exactly do you mean? Did you specify the bibliography and citation style in your Markdown document?

Wodecki

Many thanks.

I've tried pandoc, see the discussion here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/pandoc-discuss/Oxc0jb9Hwbk/RRHiZD1OBQAJ

In short: pandoc-citeproc has problems with word > word conversion (see scenario 2 in my post above

bwiernik

But why are you trying to go from Word in the first place? You said you were writing in Markdown. Don’t export to Word. Instead use pandoc to go directly from the original Markdown to Word.