Add Zotero to Google Docs

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This discussion was created from comments split from: Now available: Zotero 5.0.
  • kinan naddeh
    Please how to add Zotero to google docs, I mean: I want to add ZOTERO plug-inn to a word document on google drive (google docs)?
  • kinan naddeh
    Did Zotero 5.0 take adding worf plug-in to word document edited on google docs?
  • kinan naddeh
    I use Zotero on firefox
  • bwiernik
    @kinan%20naddeh Zotero does not currently support automatic bibliography generation with google docs. You should not open or edit a Word document with Zotero citations in google docs; this will break the Zotero citations.

    If you have further questions, please start a new thread.
  • kinan naddeh
    Thanks for replay, I tried EasyBib Bibliography creator, It adds bibliography at the end of the document but it does not show citations within the document. So, I will work on the document using zotero and reloaded to the google drive at the end of each day so my co-authors can see it. I think we may use different colors for modifications.
  • bwiernik
    If possible, i would recommend using Microsoft OneDrive combined with Word Online. This will allow your co-authors to see and edit the document without breaking Zotero citations (you can’t add or edit the citations in Word Online, but you can edit the document without breaking existing ones).
  • jmbjork
    Just discovered this the hard way... I hope that someone comes up with a good way to have a shared document amenable to concurrent manipulations (as in google docs) but where the document (in our case a grant application) maintains its MSWord-ness and Zotero dynamic referencing linkages. I suspect OneDrive is no better than just sharing the file on a shared dropbox folder.
  • bwiernik
    Word Online and Word 2013/2016 (for documents stored in OneDrive) can both do concurrent editing (ala Google Docs).
  • jmbjork
    Thank you! We'll go that route next round. Meantime, my colleague re-entered her refs with zotero and put on dropbox. I was able to add my refs to my colleagues core document, and they were seamlessly integrated into one big happy bibliography. However, I notice that in the process, "her" refs were not auto-incorporated into my library? I assume that "my" refs will similarly not be added to her personal library. How can that be? How does Zotero know how to get all the refs when at any one time only one source library is accessible?
  • adamsmith
    The citation information is stored in the Word document -- it's a little better to do this via a group, but this works fine.
  • jmbjork
    Ahh ok. Makes sense. Keeps a shared collaborative document from spamming each individual contributor's library with other peoples' references for what might be a one-shot collaboration.
  • adamsmith
    The two things to be aware of are
    1) If you cite the same item multiple times, make sure to always select it from under "Cited" in the word add-on. Otherwise the same item inserted from two libraries shows up as two items in Word.
    2) Only the person who inserted a reference from their library can modify the reference in Zotero (e.g. to fix typos) and have those changes update the document.
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