Create entry from selection

nwells · December 8, 2007

I have some documents that have some bibliography data correctly entered (manually) in Turabian format. Is there a way to get that information into Zotero automatically so I don't have to type in each reference (like by selecting the entry and importing it that way?)?

Tjowens · December 10, 2007

Unfortunately the answer most likely is no. it's sadly very difficult to parse plain text.

See these threads for discussion of the issue.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1211/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/524/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/369/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/179/

nwells · December 11, 2007

Alright - thanks.

It would be a pretty sweet feature though...

Cakebaker · December 20, 2017

I have the same problem and found this page Last modified: 2017/11/19 07:30 by bwiernik
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_formatted_bibliographies

But I don't know how to download the file it is speaks about: 1. Download this Word bibliography stylesheet.

adamsmith · December 20, 2017

You should just be able to click on the link (i.e. "Word bibliography stylesheet.")

Cakebaker · December 20, 2017

then it opens a window that looks like an internet window. If I try to save it to the bibliography style folder, I only have the choice of .mht or .htm or .html or .txt. I don't know how to save it as .xsl like the others in that folder

adamsmith · December 20, 2017

ah, it just downloads for me. Then use right-click --> Save link as.

Cakebaker · December 20, 2017

I was able to save the file as suggested, but it gives me an error message: This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
It doesn't show up as a style in my Word references tab.

adamsmith · December 20, 2017

did you place it in the Word Style folder?

Cakebaker · December 20, 2017

Yes, but there seem to be many places where the styles are stored. I put it in several different ones, but none of them seem to show up in Word
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\Bibliography\Style
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Bibliography\Style
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Bibliography\Style

adamsmith · December 20, 2017

Where in Word are you looking exactly? What other styles do you have listed there?

Cakebaker · December 20, 2017

I'm looking in the references tab. I see APA, Chicago, GB7714, GOST (name sort and title sort), Harvard, IEEE, ISO 690, MLA, SYST02, Turabian

bwiernik · December 21, 2017

That is the native Word referencing system, not Zotero. Zotero’s button are in a separate Zotero tab.

adamsmith · December 21, 2017

Right, but we're looking for the word ones, so this is right

Cakebaker · December 21, 2017

There is one place

C:\Users\xxx.xxxx-org\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\LiveContent\15\Managed\Word Document Bibliography Styles

where the file names look like this: TM02851216[[fn=apasixtheditionofficeonline]]

I wonder if that can the problem, since the file names look quite different than in the other places where they look like this APASixthEditionOfficeOnline.xsl.