New user has a basic question
I'm so sorry for asking what is probably a very basic question, but I can't seem to figure it out on my own. I've just installed Zotero and want to use it to manage the citations/bibliographies for my academic work.
I can't see how to easily import my citations into Zotero - do I have to do all of this manually? That seems like it would be awfully time-consuming.
I've never worked with this kind of software before so I can't import anything from another program. I just have word and PDF bibliographies.
Also, I assumed that Zotero could go into a word document and just pull all the citations from there and create a bibliography - is this not the case? Do all the citations have to be in my Zotero library already?
Thanks
I can't see how to easily import my citations into Zotero - do I have to do all of this manually? That seems like it would be awfully time-consuming.
I've never worked with this kind of software before so I can't import anything from another program. I just have word and PDF bibliographies.
Also, I assumed that Zotero could go into a word document and just pull all the citations from there and create a bibliography - is this not the case? Do all the citations have to be in my Zotero library already?
Thanks
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Unfortunately, the answer is that Zotero cannot (easily) import existing bibliographies.
http://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_library no, it can't do that. Citations have to be in your library.
Also, are there any shortcuts to getting citations in there?
I don't think that people normally begin by trying to import all references listed in paper bibliographies. From my experience, you typically pick specific papers you are interested in and, if you do, it's fairly trivial to import them as you go along via DOI, from publisher websites, or PubMed (or other relevant database).