Introducing ZoteroBib
We're excited to announce ZoteroBib, a new, free service to help people quickly create bibliographies without installing any software or creating an account.
See our blog post for more details.
If you're a regular, happy Zotero user, ZoteroBib probably isn't of much use (though it's not a bad way to quickly build and share a one-off bibliography), but we're hoping it allows many more people to benefit from what the Zotero/CSL/citeproc-js community has built and spurs further improvements that benefit all Zotero users. We'll be bringing features and design work from ZoteroBib back to Zotero and the Zotero web interface soon, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, if you know someone who might need to create the occasional bibliography, let them know about ZoteroBib!
See our blog post for more details.
If you're a regular, happy Zotero user, ZoteroBib probably isn't of much use (though it's not a bad way to quickly build and share a one-off bibliography), but we're hoping it allows many more people to benefit from what the Zotero/CSL/citeproc-js community has built and spurs further improvements that benefit all Zotero users. We'll be bringing features and design work from ZoteroBib back to Zotero and the Zotero web interface soon, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, if you know someone who might need to create the occasional bibliography, let them know about ZoteroBib!
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I can't wait to see what will be backported to Zotero and Zotero web particularly.
I'm really happy to know about this new feature of Zotero and especially anxious to see some of them aplied in Zotero Web.
I was wondering if it's possible that you change ABNT styles in the same way that you did with APA style (Why are all the proper nouns in my entries in lowercase when I use APA style?) because it's the same case.
Thanks for always bring new improvements.
Best regards,
Luisia
Works great. Nice tool. Congrats!
One issue though: can't make it work on Internet Explorer 11 - my company default browser.
Is it something you're aware of?
I have one question about the conversion from title case to sentence case for APA ciations. I work at a German library and our patrons often need bibliographies with a mix of German and English titles. In Zotero Standalone I could switch to sentence case for citations on a case for case base, but with ZoteroBib it's always for the whole Bibliography. This leads to wrong citations for the German titles. Am I doing it wrong or is there a workaround for this problem?
Otherwise this is a great tool for creating bibliographies.
Thanks,
Sandra
The other thing is that I believe ZoteroBib should already be leaving titles alone in APA mode when they come in as mixed case rather than title case, so this often won't be an issue. If you're not seeing that, let us know.
@dstillman : exactly! Thanks! :D
We have our own multilingual style in the repository: "Fachhochschule Vorarlberg (author-date)" and at the moment it looks like zbib is using the english version of they style, resulting in "Accessed on:" instead of "Zugriff am:" and so on.
I installed the german language pack and changed the interface language of my firefox, but this didn't help. Is there a trick to do this - or is there a chance we'll get multilanguage support for zbib soon?
regards - and again: thanks for your great work!
frank
Bug : diacritics are not always handled properly, e.g: add these ISBNs: 9782130509882 9782247050673 9782247136445
(by the way, what translator does ZoteroBib use underneath?)
Features requests :
– add multiple items at once ;
– ability to select one's custom style (i.e. not available in the repo, because… it's a custom style).
Thank you!
I tested it out using Chrome but can't find the saved copy on my computer. I looked in the browser's local storage -- I think. Searched the computer but can't find it that way either. Any idea about where it might be?
@Gracile: Thanks — issue created. You can see the translator used in the Library Catalog field. Meaning the ability to paste more than one identifier in at once? I think that's probably too much, given how much the search box is already trying to do (with text search as well as ambiguous numbers like PMIDs) and the changes it would require in the UI (e.g., multiple review boxes). I think that's going more into Zotero territory. It would also require a server-side component to fetch styles from most sites due to browser security restrictions. If there's sufficient demand we could consider this, but not sure how necessary it is.
FWIW I remember Zotero had the same problem years ago. Yes, that would need at least a limit (i.e. no more than 4-5 identifiers at once), but with your explanation I understand it's going to be too much. Ok. It's just that sometimes I'd like to create bibliographies/citations without adding items to Zotero (at the moment, I add then delete them - not a big deal).
* Use an annotated style to display abstract/note.
Note: Use search term 'annotated' to find styles that will display an abstract or note.
* Abstract/Notes field support simple html/bbc (not sure which) text formatting code (
<b>bold</b>, <i>italics</i>
)* Links seem to be persistent (at least for six months from time uploaded/last visited, see reply by bwiernik below, THANKS!).
The zbib links seem to be persistent. Do they ever expire?
Note: Expired link means that the URL no longer will display the list of references in the zbib webpage at the time the link was created.
It's Nice tool. Congratulatation
I think it can't work on Internet Explorer 10 . I must work with this browser