Question about inserting recurring citations

delastic
Hello everyone!
I have a quick question: I am currently inserting what seems like a thousand citations in a paper (actually around 200 distinct ones). My problem is that each citation is being cited in multiple sites in the paper so I keep having to reinsert the same ones (for example I am to citation 90 and then in the next sentence I have (30, 50-58, 91) so I have to manually reinsert the "30" and "50-58" by putting in the searchbox of the "insert citation" dialog author names, years, whatever to re-select them).
Am I missing an easier way to re-insert existing citations?
Thanks in advance from a soul stuck in citation limbo
  • dstillman
    I'm not sure I understand the question, but there's a Cited section at the top of the search results in the citation dialog that includes all the items in the current document. So while you do have to search again, you only need enough to match anything in the item, and then it will appear in Cited.

    We could consider adding Cited below Selected Items and Open Documents in the default list that appears before you enter a search term (in Zotero 7), but if you have 200 citations, you'd presumably want to do some minimal search anyway — you presumably don't want to scroll through a 200-item list.
  • delastic
    Thanks for the prompt response!! I understand that it is a niche problem.
    If there was a way to re-cite just using the already assigned number? Meaning I already have cited a paper as "30", there could be a special character combination in the searchbox that returns the current "30" citation (e.g. [30], {30} or smth).
    Alternatively there could be a way to view the whole citation list (with numbers) and click the desired ones (as we can do with classic view).
    Anything in order to not type "Westers 2017 Haematologica" for the 30th time...
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