editing word docs in google strips citation codes
I have a collaborative group who wish to use Google Docs as a central repository and presumably for collaborative editing sessions. However, editing a WORD doc in Google Docs strips the citation codes and certain other formatting. Is there a workaround or procedure for using Zotero in a Google Drive context? - Best Regards, John
Help me understand the workflow. Prepare the paper in a foreign word processor, e.g. Google Docs, pasting the citations in using the ODF scan export format. Next, save the file as a WORD doc and run it through Zotero's document scan to convert all the textual tags into citation codes and properly formatted citations. Finally, load the output from that process into WORD and create the bibliography. That's not really too bad, it's just more than I think my cohort will embrace. Still, I've done worse and it could really come in handy on the next paper. - Thanks for the advice, mtcstle
The process for your colleagues will be to simply copy the references from your group library using the ODF scan export format (which you can set as the default output for the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+A). You are the only person who will need to do any of the converting at the end. Really, it is the same process for them (either they copy the scan format reference or a different format into the document)--using ODF scan just lets you automate the bibliography construction at the end, rather than having to construct it manually.
mtcstle