Working on manuscript together
I am trying to work on a manuscript with a colleague concurrently that will require citations. I want to use zotero, and I created a new "group" but I'm not sure where to house our manuscript--dropbox? google docs? or does Zotero have its own program?
If you're just looking to have one person edit the document at a time, then any file sharing solution will work. Both of you can install the Zotero extension, join the same group, and cite from _that_ group.
Otherwise, for simultaneous editing, you're probably going to have to use http://zotero-odf-scan.github.io/zotero-odf-scan/ and Google Docs (or any other platform that allows you to save documents as ODF).
By "accessing documents", do you mean sharing the manuscript that you are working on together? Or sharing the library references for your joint project?
I'm working on a document, one author at a time, but the other authors use different referencing programs. whenever they send it back the zotero links are lost and their ref program links are saved.
Is there a way to get around this and maintain the "author, date" type of referencing?
Is there a way to write some code that will allow multiple types of citations (Endnote, Zotero, Mendeley, etc) in one document but keep them organized within the document? After all, I gather the citation managers all use the same CSL language and I've had little problem importing and exporting files between managers (I use all three - wish I didn't have to). Presumably, it is possible to read and recognise the other citations and simply treat them as part of the reference list. That way, each citation will be kept in their original format but the reference list can still be correctly arranged (alphabetically, or numerically).
Why must the use of different managers screw up the other citations? Why can't they play together nicely? Even if it means writing the code but making it available to the other managers?
EndNote is an outlier, unfortunately. It's an older project with a large captive user base, and hasn't shown much interest in improved compatibility (so far, at least).
We now maintain 3 separate bibliographies at the end of the document. This seems to keep the Zotero and Endnote fields/bibliography dynamicly linked. Once we get the final draft approved we plan to break all the links and manually interleave the reference list.
Happy to hear if I'm missing an obvious better way...
You could have a look at RTF Scan
https://www.zotero.org/support/rtf_scan
or at Endnote's equivalent. That may still be a better choice than what you're currently doing.
I can probably get my "Endnote Guy" to insert citations into the text using curly brackets instead of parentheses so rtf_scan could read it. I just tested rtf_scan and it built a new bibligraphy that is separate to the exiting zotero bibliography. Will keep messing with it. Thanks.
I can see this is an old discussion, however it is right now that I am facing the problem, I have all my manuscript draft referenced with zotero and my supervisor wants to add his corrections using EndNote. Do you know if by now there is a solution to work with both programs?. I sent him the library in RIS format which he could import to EN but he cannot edit/add the references in the text.
Thanks in advance for any help.