It seems like this wouldn't be too difficult as long as zotero could detect that it is in different section breaks or page breaks of a word document and then just start the numbering over...

I am in the final edits of my thesis and was wondering if this has been patched...anyone know?

Hope to bring this back to attention of devs.

I would also greatly appreciate an implementation of what I think was done and discussed some time ago in a different threat. However, as my programming-skills are limited I doubt that trying figure out how to adjust zotero by myself is the correct thing to do for me while writing my thesis.

However, I think I have found a work-around that might help others, too.

The situation: I am working on a thesis comprised of several chapters which need their own bibliographies, and each of them starting from No. 1. Some of the references are used in several chapters (on different positions), other refs are used just once….

The work-around:
1.) Do not bother that – while working on the document – you have just one bibliography (or multiple copies with the same content) including every citation managed by zotero!
2-) Upon !Final finishing! of the document, use the “outline view” and convert every -but one- chapter into sub-documents.
3.) Collapse the expanded sub-document chapters. All zotero-fields of those chapters should be hidden atm.
4.) Refresh zotero fields! Now the citation numbering as well as the bibliography of this one chapter is (should be) as desired and just conferring to this one chapter.
5.) Press the “Remove codes” button from zotero. This will finalize the document and no more updates on citation done with zotero will be possible, BUT this only effects the active part of the master-document! Everything hidden in the collapsed sub-ducuments is protected from this step and zotero code will remain!
6.) Now expand the collapsed sub-documents again, re-include one by one in the master-document and repeat the above steps.


As mentioned this is just a work-around and with the necessity of removing zotero codes it is not really a the best thing if constant work is done on the document but multiple independent bibliographies are desired while working, but it might suite as (one of) the final steps done.

@bwiernik -- In libreoffice at least, this would break automatic indexes, cross-references to figures and formulas, as well as numbering.

@Carla%20Allen nothing new on this front

I really do not know, how you can do this in numeric styles.

For further reference, this worked for me.

## Situation

Scenario: an edited book with independent chapters

- multiple files, one for each chapter, each one with its zotero bibliography
- a master file with all the chapters regrouped

How to (assuming you are using Word):

- open each chapter document
- in the Zotero tab click "unlink citations" (do not save the file unless you want to lose the link with your references!)
- copy the text in the "master" document
- close the chapter document without saving

You are missing the multiple parts in which I wrote "do not save the file". It is in the first step, and repeated in the last.