Zotero to fix Word endnotes

hermeneut
At the moment, I just want to use Zotero to correctly format my Microsoft World endnotes in Chicago Manual of Style. I don't need to import anything (for now). How do I do this? Is there a tutorial somewhere for just this function? If there is a discussion thread already handling this, please send me to it; I can't believe that, as a new user of Zotero, I am the first to ask this question. Thank you.
  • fbennett
    The screencast tutorials are probably a good place to start.

    http://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials
  • hermeneut
    Thanks, FBennet, but is there no specific answer to the question? I've looked through some tutorials, and I see nothing that hones in on this issue. Can you point out the particular tutorial?
  • fbennett
    It's not clear exactly what you are trying to do. There seem to be two possibilities. Do you have items in your Zotero library that you would like to cite into a document, formatting the notes as endnotes? Or do you have a document with references formatted by Word in some way, that you would like to convert for use with Zotero?
  • hermeneut
    Hi, FBennett. I'll try to be as specific as possible. I have a three-hundred page document that is heavily endnoted. The endnotes are messy: they contain all necessary information but are not correctly formatted (in Chicago style). I'm trying to find a program that will format them for me, or at least do some of the work of formatting. I don't need to import any information for the endnotes that I have, and I don't need to import endnotes from somewhere else. Can you help me. Alternatively, am I even looking at the right software? Thanks again.
  • adamsmith
    I don't believe such software exists. If it does, it's definitely not Zotero.
    Zotero can create correct Chicago style endnotes from information that is imported or input into Zotero's database. It cannot do anything without item information in its database.
    You may decide that you're better off organizing your sources in a database program/reference manager like Zotero and in that case Zotero may very well be the fastest tool to do that, but the inputting/importing of several hundred sources is still a very good amount of work unless you already have them in a database format.
  • hermeneut
    Hi, Adam and FBennett: Thanks for the answers. It looks as if I'll be doing a bunch of endnote editing the next few days. All the Best.

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