Select Multiple/All citations in classic view
I'm working on a bibliographic exercise, where I have placed all of the relevant papers in a collection (great feature). Now, I'd like to cite all 200 odd papers and push them into the paper's bibliography. but I don't seems to be able to select groups of citations, even though I can see all the members of the collection.
A CTRL-A like function would be very useful for this purpose.
Thanks for an amazing tool!
Rob
A CTRL-A like function would be very useful for this purpose.
Thanks for an amazing tool!
Rob
You can select individual records by holding down an OS specific key and clicking on individual records. With Mac OS the command key works for this. With other operating systems the hold-down key is either control or alt.
Under Ubuntu 12.10, Libreoffice 3.6.2.2 and Zotero 3.0.13 I cannot highlight multiple records using any of the usual strategies - including those suggested above. Can anyone validate this observation, or test that it works as expected (and described) in another O/S. Then we can turn this into a simple bug report.
Thanks,
Rob
(Mac and Word 2011)
If you just want to add items to the bibliography in the LO plugin, click edit bibliography. There you _can_ mass select (using shift-click) items and add the to the bibliography.
Also, obviously, you can use ctrl+a in regular Zotero to create bibliographies.
You _cannot_ batch select items in the multiple items display of the classic citation dialog, that has never been possible and likely never will.
(in Libre document)
Select Quick Format CItation -> (presents wizard)
Select Classic View
Select Multiple Sources
Try CTRL - A -> (no success)
Highlight a record... Highlight another record using Shift-CLICK
or CTRL-CLICK -> (only initial record is highlighted)
Can someone verify this behaviour under a similar/different O/S?
Thanks.
From the outside, it would seem to be a small thing... allow group selects using the usual keystrokes, ... then loop through the selected citations and throw them in to the reference, just as if you did them one at a time...
In my case I need to include the citations in the paper (e.g. have
fn 1-202), and not simply work with a bibliography, thus the need for the group inclusions.
I've done this by hand now - having some odd results - but this is a different post.
I still submit this would be a useful feature.
The reason this is unlikely to happen is that the classic plugin isn't getting develope anymore beyond bugfixes. I can't say how hard this would be to do in general if someone wanted to submit a patch.
Also, you write: "in what scenario do you insert more than 10 citations at once? " is there a specified (or unspecified) limit in Zotera on the number of citations used at once?
in what scenario do you insert more than 10 citations at once?
no, I was just wondering. So to understand that correctly - you do the meta analysis, and the first citation (or one of the first) you insert contains all relevant papers, hence the 1-200?
There's no good solution for that at the moment.
Note this all is about the dektop application of Zotero. This works differently online and I'd generally not recommend it.
Of course this feature is very useful and can save a lot of effort in clicking the mouse. For example, if you want to cite 5 items, currently you need to click the item, and the right-direction arrow, one-by-one, with 10 clicks. If you can hold the Ctrl-key, you need only 6 clicks. If the 5 items are close to each other, you hold the Shift-key, need only 3 clicks.
And also the Ctrl+A ability is very useful, for the people who write manuals or teaching materials etc. This ability is offered by Mendeley/Endnote, just Ctrl+A and click the Double-Quotes button, quite convenient. It is also like Bibtex's \nocite{*} as well. Why would they provide this ability?
I would not deny a useful ability of a tool even if it is NOT used by normal citing use cases.
Really hope Zotero can provide this Ctrl-/Shift-, and Ctrl+A, selection ability for "Multiple Sources" function.