How to import Word bibliography into Zotero
Hi,
I have a Word 2007 dokument which contains a lot of bibliographical reference and I would like to import them to Zotero. I can export a XML file (Word generates it in .../users/.../AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Bibliography) but Zotero won't recognize it.
Is there a tool to convert it to a Zotero readable RDF file? Or is there another way to import the bibliographical references from a Word file into Zotero?
Thank you very much.
I have a Word 2007 dokument which contains a lot of bibliographical reference and I would like to import them to Zotero. I can export a XML file (Word generates it in .../users/.../AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Bibliography) but Zotero won't recognize it.
Is there a tool to convert it to a Zotero readable RDF file? Or is there another way to import the bibliographical references from a Word file into Zotero?
Thank you very much.
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If Word/MS publishes the schema for the XML somewhere, it may be possible that someone would volunteer a translator, but
a) given that MS is MS I wouldn't get my hopes up and
b) no promises even if they have published this.
I had the same problem and this article solved this issue;
http://studies.k-jahn.de/2012/02/22/exporting-a-word-library-to-latexbibtex/
Best Regards
Samu
Anyone know where else to find a converter like this one?
@hkazmi1 & others facing that problem: If your browser opens the Word2Bibtex file instead of offering to save it, use right click and select Save Link As...
Or copy the text to notepad and save it as Word2Bibtex.xsl in the right location (If you get a message along the lines of "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below." omit that)
Also, note that for Word 2007 I had to save the file in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography\Style
To apply the method Samudaya Nanayakkara not clear to me which way to put the "bibtex.xls" file.
Prove also Bostjan method with trial version of EndNote, not cause any error in the import but did nothing.
The variant "JabRef" does not work, apparently my java virtual machine is outdated.
I would appreciate a solution to this. So far I have felt very comfortable with cross references on manager of Microsoft Office But I am getting realizing that it is a trap to keep you tied to him.
Greetings.
Done.
Any suggestions?
PS not very computer savy, but I can follow directions pretty well.
It sounds to me like you want to extract references that you had inserted into a Word _document_ via _Zotero_ Your best bet, I think, is to use MLZ to extract references. Let us know if you decide to go this route, because there are some things to consider beforehand.
I am trying to extract reference i inserted from Zotero into a Word doc before I lost my library. So yes, you are right. What are the things to consider for MLZ and how does it work?
what I am looking for is similar, but not quite the same as I did not lose any library data - as of yet :-)
I just wrote an extensive article in word, citing from my Zotero library, creating a word bibliography - everything worked great.
Now I would like to see in Zotero a selection of all these papers cited in my article to export them to a list. Is there any way to do that?
Thanks
Raimund
Thanks again for providing the software and the support - it's just awesome!
R.
I have very large bibliographies that need to be converted to zotero.
Directly from Word, going through JabRef sound most promising, then.
The link below from UCSF details a process that can be adapted from endnote to Zotero. WizFolio allows coping the reference list from MS Word into WizFolio which can then be exported to a RIS file. This file can be shared or copied and pasted into Zotero via "import from clipboard' directly into a subcollection.
Make sure to check that the references imported correctly, WizFolio got about 1 in 10 of mine wrong.
https://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/inplainsight/2013/09/19/using-wizfolio-to-transfer-a-ms-word-bibliography-to-endnote-or-refworks/
Hope this helps
Note: Free WizFolio account allows only 50 references to be imported per month.
P.S. Feedback is more than welcome, and can be given either here or at the code repository at https://github.com/rmzelle/ref-extractor.
P.P. S. There are no privacy concerns: while it is a website, the extraction takes place entirely on your computer, and nobody has access to the Word documents you process with the tool.
Not sure if EEWOWW will have the same import feature.