Where can I find Zotero's unique bibliographic code?

Romina.H
Hello,
I'd like to use Zotero with TextCite. In order to do that, I need to find the unique bibliographic code that Zotero uses for each entry (book, publication, item).
In this link http://textcite.sourceforge.net/manual/5fe176c8.html there are examples of this code for other reference systems, but I want to stay with ZOTERO.
I will be grateful if you can help me with this information.
  • noksagt
    With the caveat that I've not used TextCite, I'd note two things: (i) it seems to replicate some of the note-taking functionality available in Zotero but not available in the other programs listed (so you may also want to say what features you are missing that make you want to use TextCite) and (ii) your best bet may be to use RTF scan or LaTeX/BibTeX (whichever you prefer).

    Zotero's unique IDs are not generally exported or predictable from the export formats. Further, the auto-generated keys that are exposed on export may be impossible to replicate in TextCite because they include a processed version of the title & TextCite seems to lack scripting this. However the author/year cite keys that you'd use in RTF or in LaTeX would be easy for TextCite to generate.
  • Romina.H
    Thank you noksagt for your reply. I like the way that TextCite manage my notes about a text: for each annotation I have 3 tabs: text, translation and comments. I can tag into several categories, make a summary of its contents, I can put the page number for that quotation, and also indicates a place in a general schema of the publication (is like putting the notes inside a table of contents).
    In Zotero I can make several notes in one ITEM, but until now I didn't find a way to organize them similar to TextCite.
  • adamsmith
    FWIW, the Scannable Cite translator that comes with the ODF scan add-on does include the unique identifier:
    http://zotero-odf-scan.github.io/zotero-odf-scan/
    but it's not a human-readable identifier, so not sure how much joy this'll bring you.

    But generally I agree with noksagt--you're likely better of using RTF-scan or a BibTeX based key.

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