clickable DOI links in Bibliography/citations
Hello,
how about to make the references to DOIs clickable in word/openoffice documents? Often, we also generate a PDF from the documents, and it would be easier for the reader (professor, etc... mostly a bit less used to technology as we zotero users) to simply click on the DOI instead of copy/paste or typing in order to look up a reference.
This would apply to everywhere a DOI is displayed in a document.
It would be even more consistent i would think because URLs are already being recognized in some cases automatically (but not in Neooffice as i am trying right now...).
I hope this would be possible in Word as well as in Openoffice...?
greetings
mmoole
how about to make the references to DOIs clickable in word/openoffice documents? Often, we also generate a PDF from the documents, and it would be easier for the reader (professor, etc... mostly a bit less used to technology as we zotero users) to simply click on the DOI instead of copy/paste or typing in order to look up a reference.
This would apply to everywhere a DOI is displayed in a document.
It would be even more consistent i would think because URLs are already being recognized in some cases automatically (but not in Neooffice as i am trying right now...).
I hope this would be possible in Word as well as in Openoffice...?
greetings
mmoole
ok, then this would mean to add that kind of embedded markup enclosing the doi links (and maybe normal http links, too) to the word plugins, i think...? I cant imagine how (un)possible that would be... :-)
Well, there is another point i wonder about: if then we would have real clickable links there in the text document, they are normally underlined. This can also be seen as a citation style concern.... maybe underlined links are allowed in some, some dont care, and some disallow it?
But on the other hand, the user should have something to recognize that there is a link and that he/she can click on it. This is normally done by underlining and often setting the color to blue.
Do we have a contradiction here? Maybe it can be realized by formatting the text without underline?
greetings
mmoole
Just an idea....
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mmoole
I need to generate bibliographies of Zotero collections that contain clickable DOI links or URL links. Not necessarily directly as I cite them in a word processor, but rather when I create/export the reference list directly from Zotero. Is there a way to do so?
If not... the DOI citation format of a lot of citation styles (e.g. APA) does show the DOI as a complete URL (with http:// etc) , however, if you insert the Zotero-created list from your clipboard into Word, the hyperlink isn't added. As mentioned by adamsmith above, turning Hyperlinks OFF is easy, but I haven't found a way to turn them ON for all URLs in a text retrospectively.
If you manually insert "enter" or press the spacebar behind any URL in the text, it is instantly converted to a clickable link (Apparently Word is using Auto-Correct to do this), but I find no way to do so automatically for all URLs in a Zotero-generated bibliography. (find/replace and then redo hasn't worked for me either.)
Again, I realize that this problem is only indirectly a problem of Zotero (unless I am missing a way to create the bibliography with clickable DOI links), however, numerous Google searches and hours of trying to solve it in my Word processor have so far been unsuccessful and I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, work-arounds or other word processors/programs that could solve this. Thanks so much in advance!
I've searched a few places, but can't seem to find how to auto-reformat in Office for Mac. - is it one of those things that's in the Windows version, but not the Mac version. [Haven't got access to the latest version of Word for Windows to try to find it there to see if I can then locate it in the Mac - have to say, it's something I've never tried to do before!)
Note that for me this only works to link URLs after I remove field codes via the Zotero add-on (which, of course, you should only ever do in a copy of the document, since it breaks all links to Zotero).
Once again, thanks for the help.
[That said, at least the suggestion of unlinking, then tapping the space bar after each reference isn't too bad & forces you to check that they're all presented exactly as required]
Just done a bit of searching - it's a hidden tool that you have to activate & then remember the shortcut! (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2016-macword/apply-autoformat-options/c86828d1-acd8-4303-aceb-dc9f84345104?auth=1 )
Hmm, never by me. Neither in Word 2013 nor 2016 (on PC). Links in the reference list will stay as text never to be turned into links. Adobe Acrobat will turn them into links so it is a minor problem. Only the looks that is not linkyfied.
I have a little testfile you can look at. There is another issue in that... a reference in the text is (J. Grode, 2015; Steen Grode, 2014, 2015, 2015) and I have no idea why my name is in full.
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation
And for the name thing. J. Grode I understand, but why Steen Grode isn't S. Grode I have no idea about.