Cite a single chapter from a whole book entry

TheoGR
Hello. I have a whole edited book added in my Zotero library, but I want to export citation for only a chapter of this. Is there any way to do it automatically in a word document?
  • adamsmith
    You have to create a separate item (Book Section). See https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/edited_volumes_and_book_chapters
  • ciznefil
    Is there not another way? Do I really have do create "book section"? This means to copy all of the information from existing book to "book section" and honestly, it is time consuming. Why is it not possible to add book section to already existing book and add there only author(s) of selected chapter and not copy all of the book info again?
    Or maybe it is possible, but i did not find way how to do it.
    Thanks for reply.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    @ciznefil: Just right-click on the item, choose Duplicate Item, and change it to a Book Section. You don't have to re-enter all the information.
  • ciznefil
    Thank you a lot! I did not realize that I can do it that way :-)
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    Just to update this old thread, there's now an even easier way: just right-click the Book item and select Create Book Section.
  • OldSlippers
    Updating old thread: if I right-click and create a book section then I'd have to move the pdf of that chapter to it and the original entry of the edited book (with all the chapters) is no longer complete. Wld it be better to duplicate the chapters, or just have individual entries for each chapter... and is there a quick way to separate out all individual chapters into their own entries. I often download edited volumes from Cambridge Core (or something) and I end up with a single entry with lots of chapters... How to fix this?
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