Upgrade StorageChanging a Citation Position in a Sentence (relative to punctuation)
Hi there,
I'm a long-time EndNote user, and I'm playing with Zotero to see if it can work for me. I have a question about how to do something in Zotero that I can do (somewhat easily) in EndNote.
Often if I'm switching publishers, I need to not only switch the style of the citation/bibliography but also the position relative to the punctuation. For example, one journal might use superscript numerical references:
Biofilms are a major source of hospital-related infections in the US.1
(Where the final 1 is a superscript after the period.) Other journals put the citation before the period. I've used an APA-style example, but the Royal Society of Chemistry actually puts superscript numbers before the period (strange, but true):
Biofilms are a major source of hospital-related infections in the US (Davies, 2003).
In EndNote, I could change this easily (in Word) using find and replace with "wildcards" (or regular expressions): First, I would "unformat citations" so the Word document would be free of markup. The reference would then become "{Smith, 2002 #32}". Then, I would use regular expressions (backreferences) to find the pattern within braces, and then replace the pattern with a version that moves the period (or comma) appropriately. Then, I could re-format the citation in the new style using EndNote.
This is a bit confusing - if you're not catching it, please see slides 42-45 at this presentation: https://fitzkee.chemistry.msstate.edu/sites/default/files/bootcamp/2022/session-13_slides.pdf
Is there a way to do something like this in Zotero? I am not able to find anything similar to EndNote's "unformat citations," so I'm guessing I'd have to do it some other way.
Thanks!
I'm a long-time EndNote user, and I'm playing with Zotero to see if it can work for me. I have a question about how to do something in Zotero that I can do (somewhat easily) in EndNote.
Often if I'm switching publishers, I need to not only switch the style of the citation/bibliography but also the position relative to the punctuation. For example, one journal might use superscript numerical references:
Biofilms are a major source of hospital-related infections in the US.1
(Where the final 1 is a superscript after the period.) Other journals put the citation before the period. I've used an APA-style example, but the Royal Society of Chemistry actually puts superscript numbers before the period (strange, but true):
Biofilms are a major source of hospital-related infections in the US (Davies, 2003).
In EndNote, I could change this easily (in Word) using find and replace with "wildcards" (or regular expressions): First, I would "unformat citations" so the Word document would be free of markup. The reference would then become "{Smith, 2002 #32}". Then, I would use regular expressions (backreferences) to find the pattern within braces, and then replace the pattern with a version that moves the period (or comma) appropriately. Then, I could re-format the citation in the new style using EndNote.
This is a bit confusing - if you're not catching it, please see slides 42-45 at this presentation: https://fitzkee.chemistry.msstate.edu/sites/default/files/bootcamp/2022/session-13_slides.pdf
Is there a way to do something like this in Zotero? I am not able to find anything similar to EndNote's "unformat citations," so I'm guessing I'd have to do it some other way.
Thanks!
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/word_field_codes