How to transform a manual bibliography to a Zotero bibliography?

alirezabs · December 7, 2020

Hi,
I have 6 bibliographies (manual) for 6 chapters of a text. Il would like to fusion theses bibliographies and to make a unique Zotero bibliography.

Is there any efficient way to transform a manual bibliography (that is, a typed bibliography) to a Zotero bibliography?

maier.de · December 7, 2020

You can try anystyle.io to parse your references and save them in a format that Zotero can digest. Once you have your references in Zotero you can get rid of the duplicates and re-export a Zotero-created bibliography.

Of course, there's no guarantee that your reference lists will be parsed perfectly, your mileage may vary.

adamsmith · December 7, 2020

For more details on what maier.de describes, see https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_formatted_bibliographies#plain-text_citations_and_bibliographies

alirezabs · December 7, 2020

Thank you very much. I tried anystyle and it works very well (1 mistake / 48).