Bibliography as footnotes instead of at the end

blnrubial
Hi, I'm trying Zotero by the first time and I find I can only add references at the end of the document, not as footnotes. I'm using version 4 in Windows 10, Word 2016 and plugin 3.5.6. I have the lastest Firefox too.

Is it possible to add footnotes? (According to the videos I saw in youtube, it used to be for previews versions)

Thanks in advance
  • blnrubial
    After reinstalling the pluging, I tried to add a new citation and suddently appeared a different window with an option to select footnote or note at the end, and even the language of the citation, which I cannot change now.

    But when I inserted the bibliography, it appeared again as note at the end, and when I tried to repeat all this, the window had changed to the normal one, without the footnote option.
  • bwiernik
    Whether citations appear as footnotes is a function of what citation style you choose--e.g., Chicago (full note) will insert citations as footnotes.

    See here for information on how to use the word processor plugins:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage
  • adamsmith
    Also note that what you want are citations as footnotes -- not a bibliography.
  • blnrubial
    Thank you, I know what happens now. The problem is the CSL style I'm using is defined for bibliography only, not for footnotes, like in the Chicago (full note) style. It's Angewandte Chemie International Edition, it's from a scientific journal, they only add citations at the end

    I tried to modify it using the CSL visual editor, and now it is added as a footnote, but just the little number, not the whole citation. I think it's too complicated. I'll have to use word footnotes and copypaste each citation. At least I don't have to write them

    Thank you for your help anyway :)
  • adamsmith
    edited December 8, 2016
    I don't think Angewandte Chemie actually expects you to set the bibliography as footnotes for manuscripts. They do that in typeset.
    Since it's possible for the same item to be cited twice -- and then should be referred to by the same number -- in the journal, you simply can't do this with footnotes, which are always sequential (i.e. always 1,2,3,4; never 1,2,3,1).

    Edit: from the Angewandte Chemie author guidelines
    References to the literature or to footnotes are typed in square brackets as superscripts after punctuation. These are numbered consecutively and listed (with the numbers in square brackets but not as superscripts) at the end of the main body of text.
    (my emphasis).
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1521-3773/homepage/2002_authors.html#sect4_5ReferencesorFootnotes
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