using a documant with zotero that has endnote citations

bradley96b
I've been using EndNote forever, and recently switched Zotero because the EndNote version I have no longer works with Mac OS X 10.58. I was wondering if anyone knows a way to have the EndNote citations already in a document recognized by Zotero?

Thanks
  • mark
    edited September 16, 2009
    Hi Bradley, welcome to Zotero!

    There are numerous threads on this (1, 2, 3, 4), though note that some of these are old. The current status seems to be that there is no automated conversion process (for various reasons).

    However, if you flatten all the fields in a copy of the document, you may find the RTF scan feature helpful. That feature is found in the newest 2.0beta versions of Zotero.
  • bradley96b
    Thanks Mark!!

    Using a test document having 38 EndNote citations, making sure to have the in-text citations generated by EndNote in the .rtf bracketed {like this}, I tried your rtf scan suggestion with the 2.0 Beta version of Zotero (MS Word 2008, Firefox 3.53, MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.8) and my imported EndNote library. And it worked perfectly!

    Too bad no one has created a feature to accomplish this (the task has been posted for 2 years now it seems).
  • mark
    edited September 16, 2009
    Good to know the RTF scan worked!
    Too bad no one has created a feature to accomplish this (the task has been posted for 2 years now it seems).
    Thing is, multiple steps are needed on the user's side (e.g. importing your EndNote library into Zotero) that cannot be automated so simply.
  • bradley96b
    I guess in my excitement I spoke too soon. Although the citations get formatted and a bibliography generated, Zotero stops there. Any commands like "edit bibliograpy" generate the following:

    "Zotero integration error
    Zotero experienced an error updating your document"

    Any thoughts on what can be tried now?

    Cheers,
  • mark
    Do you have the latest version of the Word plugin?

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