Unfortunately, I think the first version or two of ProCite have have come with no useful export formats. If that's the case, it would make this a question not about Zotero, but "how do I leave ProCite 1 for ANYTHING ELSE?"


I've not used versions of ProCite that old, nor do I have manuals. Thus, I could be mistaken. But I believe the "punctuation file"/"output style" format changed at least once since then and I do have limited experience in dealing with someone else's legacy ProCite for MacOS database. Many years ago (as a student), I was tasked with importing a 10,000+ record database of this format into refbase. We had no money for this, of course. After a lot of back-and-forth with the original database owner, the best solution ended up being to follow instructions we found on getting ProCite to export a comma-separated format (or, possibly into the old dbase-III format (!))...

So...you likely have these options:

• Find a more modern version of ProCite (I believe there are still demo versions on ISI's servers) and follow the migration instructions you've found
• Figure out how to get a flat tile/text (e.g. CSV) out & follow instructions on how to massage that kind of data into something Zotero can import.
• Try to create a punctuation file to allow you to export your data into e.g. BibTeX or something that you can convert into RIS

The first is likely the easiest and will retain the most data. I knowthe second will actually work, but is a struggle. The last is likely more difficult than it sounds (I haven't created punctuation files, but (from what I recall of trying this route before giving up) there are fundamental limitations that make punctuation files for export really hard (e.g. lack of ability to make line-endings or other rare/protected, poor handling of fields that are missing or poorly formatted (different author delimiters, for example)).