Upgrade StorageAvailable for beta testing: Faster citing of selected and open items
In the latest Zotero 7 beta, the Quick Format dialog — the red bar that pops up when you click Add/Edit Citation from the Word, LibreOffice, or Google Docs plugin — now automatically suggests items selected in Zotero as well as any items you have open in the built-in reader. These appear in new "Selected Items" and "Open Documents" sections in the search results.
This makes it faster than ever to cite materials you're working with. If you have a PDF open in the reader, you can simply click Add/Edit Citation, press Return once to choose that document's parent item, and press Return again to insert the citation into your document. The same will work for an item selected in the library tab.
We know some people prefer the "classic" citation dialog for the ability to find items by browsing their libraries. With this new functionality, it's now possible to just select an item in the main Zotero window, switch to your word processor, click Add/Edit Citation, and press Return. If you previously made the classic citation dialog the default and want to switch back to the Quick Format dialog, you can do so from the Cite pane of the Zotero settings.
If you want to insert a citation with multiple selected items, you can press space bar after pressing Return to choose another item. In a future update, we'll make it possible to use Shift + up/down-arrow to select multiple items in the search results, which you could then reorder via drag and drop.
This makes it faster than ever to cite materials you're working with. If you have a PDF open in the reader, you can simply click Add/Edit Citation, press Return once to choose that document's parent item, and press Return again to insert the citation into your document. The same will work for an item selected in the library tab.
We know some people prefer the "classic" citation dialog for the ability to find items by browsing their libraries. With this new functionality, it's now possible to just select an item in the main Zotero window, switch to your word processor, click Add/Edit Citation, and press Return. If you previously made the classic citation dialog the default and want to switch back to the Quick Format dialog, you can do so from the Cite pane of the Zotero settings.
If you want to insert a citation with multiple selected items, you can press space bar after pressing Return to choose another item. In a future update, we'll make it possible to use Shift + up/down-arrow to select multiple items in the search results, which you could then reorder via drag and drop.
The zotero version is more flexible because it lets you insert open pdfs as well as highlighted references.
But the Endnote way is super quick so it would be good if the red insert citations box had an item in the list that said insert all selected citations or something.