Exporting from Zotero/Open office to Endnote/Word

Sorabh
Hi all,

Zotero and Open office has worked wonderfully so far, I just ran into a little bump. I would like to export my Zotero formated Open office text document into Word for the mac, but I am having a lot of trouble doing this.

The Zotero plugin for mac is not compatible with my version on mac. I tried converting the Open office file from "field codes" to "bookmark". Then I tried saving as a doc file and opening in Word... unfortunately I have no idea how to access the references in word, much less export them to End note.

Finally while I can export my entire Zotero library to endnote, is there a way to export only references used in my open office document?

Thanks for reading, and any help would be much appreciated.

Sorabh
  • adamsmith
    As for the first question - it's not quite clear what you want to do exactly.
    If you don't have a Word Plugin for your Mac (though I believe for the 2.0 version pretty much all Mac/Word combinations are covered) you wouldn't be able to do anything with the references in the first place. So what do you mean by "access the references"?

    As for the second question - as opposed to what I understand from the most recent versions of endnote, Zotero doesn't send a packed library together with your document. The references exist only within Zotero. You can obviously export parts of your library (select - right click - export) but you won't be able to tell which ones are actually cited in any given document.

    Between the lines of your post I seem to read that you want to work with Endnote and Zotero on the same document. That's not possible and won't be any time soon. There's absolutely no solution for this. It's either or.
  • Sorabh
    Hi Adam,

    Thanks for the quick reply.

    Ideally I would like to take my Open office document, convert it into a word document and extract the references into Endnote so that someone else who has Endnote/word can view and edit my document. Any way that I end up with a Word document with Endnote editable references would be fantastic.

    I did download the Mac version of the word processor plugins:
    "The latest version of the Mac Word plugin for Zotero 2.0 is 3.0a6. The plugin is compatible with Word 2004 and 2008 and OS X Tiger or newer (including Snow Leopard):"
    http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_installation

    And upon installing I got an error that said Word was not found. I assume this is because I have the 2001? (or 2000?) version of word for Macs.

    Hope that clears the post up? I can likely install Zotero on a Windows machine at home... which is what I guess I'll try doing right now. Still not sure how I'll go about converting references from Zotero to Endnote, based on what you're saying it appears to be impossible to keep references converted from Zotero to endnote pointing at the right sentences.

    Thanks,
    Sorabh
  • dstillman
    Word v.X for Mac isn't (and has never been) supported. And, as adamsmith noted, there's currently no way to transfer citations in word processor documents between Zotero and EndNote, though this may be possible in the future.
  • bdarcus
    Ideally I would like to take my Open office document, convert it into a word document and extract the references into Endnote so that someone else who has Endnote/word can view and edit my document.
    For a number of technical reasons that involve flaws in Word, Endnote, and Zotero (and I suppose OOo), this is not a realistic possibility ATM.
  • Sorabh
    Ok, at least I won't have to keep trying to do the conversion!

    Thanks for the information adamsmith, Dan and bdarcus,
    Sorabh
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