Repeating Full Bibliographic Information in New Chapters

anaselli

I'm writing a dissertation in a single Word doc with chapters separated as different sections, i.e., "Section Break (Next Page)." I'm trying to figure out how to make Zotero automatically include full bibliographic info for the first time a previously referenced resource is mentioned in a chapter.

For example, I reference the same book in both chapters 1 and 2. The first reference in chapter 2 should include full bibliographic information, but the way it's showing now is like it's a subsequent reference (i.e., only the author's last name and the shortened version of the title).

I'd be very grateful for help on this.

noksagt

Presently, there is no way to have section-specific formatting like this.

You may maintain each section as a separate file to work around this.

anaselli

Thanks for confirming this. I would strongly prefer to write the entire dissertation in a single Word doc, so I suppose my only option is to enter the full bibliographical information manually for the first entry of each chapter.

Suggestion to Zotero: Add an option to include full bibliographic information in a footnote. This would then override the default shortened version for citations of references previously cited.

adamsmith

Notwithstanding the fact that Zotero should be able to do this, you're ill-advised to write your entire dissertation in a single word file. Word (and open office) files of more than ~100p. are notoriously unreliable. don't do it.

anaselli

Thanks, Adam, but I strongly disagree. I'm writing my second PhD dissertation now, and I completed my first one in a single Word doc without problems. I love using a single Word doc so that I can view the document map for the entire document, create several hyperlinked table of contents (for the main headings, tables, and figures), search a single document, easily turn it into a PDF, etc.

jkhardin

Has anyone gotten this to work? My editor wants the whole book in one document, so that means all my references in subsequent chapters will be short titles even if in that particular chapter it's the first reference to that work. Please advise on a workaround if we still can't do this--the constraint is that I can't send the editor a different file for each chapter like I would prefer to do

adamsmith

Are you saying you want subsequent references to be short or not?

jkhardin

Would like each new section in my document to start over with full titles until they're repeated within that section. So, for example, if the same title is used 2x in chapter 1 (section 1) and 2x in chapter 2 (section 2) of my document, the second time in each chapter would be short, but the first time in each chapter would be long.

adamsmith

Only way to do this is to _author_ in separate documents, then save copies of those, unlink citations, and combine into one finished document (since the citations are unlinked, they won't update anymore so that the first citation in each chapter is full).