How to import a numbered list of citations and export abstracts?

deltatoxicology
I have 500 citations in a numbered list. I need to keep the numbering as it is. How would I do that, please?

And two, how does one include abstracts when exporting a bibliography to a csv file, please?

Many thanks!
  • adamsmith
    1. I don't see an easy option. Could you describe the use case in some more detail? There might be a workaround..

    2. Abstracts are included in the Csv export by default, you may just be overlooking them given the number of columns
  • deltatoxicology
    I imported a list of 500 citations that are references in an expert witness's report, so they are listed in numerical order of when the citation came up in his report. I need to keep that order so I can tie the reference to its mention by number in the report.
    What field do I use to capture that unique identifying number? I see a column marked Number in the main window, which would be perfect, but there is no field for number where you fill in information about the citation. Is there a way to activate a Number field?
  • deltatoxicology
    I looked at every column A through CJ and there is one marked Abstract Note but no column marked Abstract. How do I get the abstracts to import to the CSV, please?
  • adamsmith
    abstract note is the technical name of the abstract field in Zotero.
  • adamsmith
    I don't see an option for storing the reference number -- I'm not sure how you imported the reference list, but there's no format that I'm aware of that would include the reference number and definitely none that'd import it in Zotero (which also doesn't have a corresponding field -- number is for things like the patent, report, or article number, a stable property of an item not the number where it was cited in a specific document), so unless I'm missing something, this is virtually impossible. The only option I can kind of think of would be to script something to connect reference list entries with existing Zotero items and write the number to a field like Extra, but that'd require significant scripting.
  • deltatoxicology
    The Abstract Note column ported zero abstracts. Is there an additional setting to get the abstracts to import?

    I imported the references as a csv file which has a column with the number of the citation in order, so the number is in my csv but I don't know where to tell Zotert to put that number.

    Thanks for the comments about the reference numbers; if you have a way of requesting that feature, that would be great!
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