I see... Would it be possible to add an option to the plugin to embed the group/item id?

Basically, I've got an alternative mechanism for working with Google Docs, similar to scallable cites. We've added a way of tracking item ids https://github.com/edtechhub/zotero-edtechhub. Together with a translator, we thus effectively paste 'scannable cites' into the google doc (and have a GDocs script to make those look better). Using https://github.com/edtechhub/zotero-cli we then sync a collection (within a library) to the document.

While this doesn't have the nice UI of the plugin, it has some advantages, such as the ability to count references. We've got some major literature reviews (including some really long reports) and our process allows us to figure out what we've cited where (safeguarding against over citation).

Also, it means that we can provide the list of references online. We're using the kerko container to display our library here: http://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/. For example, the references for a methodology paper that we wrote is here http://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/?ref=7DBDBLYX&sort=date_desc. We essentially get this without any extra effort: We just extract the citations from the Google Doc, use zotero-cli to sync a collection, which is then displayed with the kerko container app at https://docs.edtechhub.org.

@adomasven - Would you or others be interested in a short hangouts call so we could show our system, and see if/how it could be integrated with the current plugin?

Thank you - done!