Clueless student research assistant needs help

adrian.cherry
Hello everyone,

The professor I'm working with has asked me to learn bibliography software to teach her. She wants the software to automatically update the little number hyperlink on her citations so that she doesn't have to go through and do it all by hand, which would take forever. It's on a 20-page document with almost 200 citations. I'm not even sure if Zotero can do something like that, and quite honestly I'm lost. Are there any particular tutorial videos I should watch, or is there an easy explanation?
  • noksagt
    What format is the document in? How were those 200 citations entered? If they were entered using some other citation manager, you may be better off using that same citation manager. If they were added manually, there is no citation manager that I'm aware of that will automatically convert them to the special forms that auto-update, etc.

    You'd need to perform the conversion manually, regardless of the citation manager you choose.

    The first step would be to get the references into the reference manager. It is very simple to add references within Zotero. For only a couple hundred, I'd probably opt to have a student research assistant do this by visiting the articles at the various publisher sites & using the Zotero's translators, as this'd get more comprehensive data, a copy of the article, etc. If I had more or had a particularly lazy RA, I'd refer my RA to https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_formatted_bibliographies
  • bwiernik
    Besides the link posted above, you can also look at the Getting Started guide here:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

    There are also links to several other guides and video tutorials to help you there.

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