Just tried the Word Plugin. So far it looks really good. I was wondering though, when are further citation formats - or better yet the ability to create custom formats - likely to be implemented?

By the way, keep up the great work. This is really becoming an awesome piece of software!

Bruce: Simon is working on some major updates to the Word plugin. You might want to talk to him.

We'll be releasing an update in the very near future that addresses these upgrade and communication issues. Thank you for your patience.

I have tried the new version of the plug-in mentioned in Sean's post of August 17. It has the exact same issues as those detailed in kkhanharris' recent posts. Alas, Harris was able to get the plug-in to work but doesn't know how.

Any ideas?

Any plans to create a plug-in for Office 2007. All new file type names, but MS has both back and forward compatibility hotfixs

i'm just trying Zotero for the first time, with Word 2004 (Mac OS X).

clicking on the z"r button to insert a citation, i get the format selection dialog, but then Word presents me with a "run-time error '5': Invalid procedure call or argument"

can anyone suggest how to resolve this? i'd like to replace my Endnote with Zotero, but inserting citations is a pretty big need :)

Reinstalling Word fixed the problem, for what it's worth.
Now the plugin seems to operate as expected!

Hi jpodesv,

To make it easier for users to install the Word plugin under Windows, I wrote an installer:
http://zotero-dev.googlegroups.com/web/ZoteroWordPluginInstaller0.4.zip

I would appreciate it if you could test it (and report back here if it works). All this installer does is place the installer plugin-file (Zotero.dot) in the right folder. It should also work under Vista, but I haven't been able to test this yet. If it does work, the installer can probably be made available soon via the Zotero webpage.

Alternatively, you can do the installation by hand. This is how you can find the correct startup folder for Office 2007 :
1. In Word 2007, click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options.
2. Click Advanced.
3. Under General, click File Locations. The Startup folder should be listed here.

By default, this probably would be "c:\Users\user name\AppData\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP" for Office 2007 under Vista.

It works, only one problem, and it is probably my fault. For the first citation, it inserts a footnote that doesn't give complete information...for example:

Boehling, A Question of Priorities

is the first citation. No publisher information, page number, etc. Is it something I'm doing? Other than this issue, the installer worked great. Thanks!

Hi, I'm not a developer, but I have a couple of questions that I hope will be useful.

No publisher information, page number, etc.

1) Which citation style did you choose? For example, the Chicago style (Note with bibliography) only puts the short version of the title in the footnote. The rest of the information will appear in the bibliography once you have added that. If this is not what you want, then you could try another citation style, such as Chicago style (Note without bibliography), which puts everything in the footnotes and does not allow for a separate bibliography to be added.

2) Did you add the page number in the "Add Citation" window of the Zotero plugin? There's a text box for the page number at the bottom of that window. Whatever you put there ought to appear in the note.

New plugins for MS Word and OpenOffice (including NeoOffice) are now available. The new plugins require Zotero 1.0.0rc4 and offer a great deal of new and improved functionality.

Hi, I've got a somewhat strange problem using the IEEE citation style and Word2007:
I insert my references into the first page, and they are correctly ordered by first appearance.
However, when I insert an additional reference to the second page, the ones on the first page are renumbered in a strange way, leading to a sequence of appearance of 1-2-7-4-3-5-6 i e. 3 is changed to 7, 5 to 3, 6 to 5 and 7 to 6. This happens both if I reuse an old reference and if I insert a completely new one.
Can anyone tell me why this happens, and what I can do about it?

I don't think it makes much sense to embed the data in the field, particularly given how common it is to have multiple citations refer to the same source.

I do think it's sensible to embed data in the file package in OOXML and OpenDocument, however. This is how OOXML defines citation encoding in its spec, and it's how we'll do it in ODF. That gives the benefits you describe (and also the possibility to have standardized encoding that allows users to collaborate on a document using different programs), without the costs.

But there's an even more crucial first step: using more robust global identifiers to identify citation sources.

But this has been discussed before, mostly on the dev list. It seems to me likely to get solved.

How would you enter data within a Word document? Where would we find it? and How we recognise it?

The data would get stored in a dedicated file. If you look, for example, at a docx file with citations, there's a file called something like bibliography.xml. This data is hooked up to a field in the main document.

ODF would work similarly, except the data would get encoded in RDF.

In either case, you could extract the data for the citations by simply loading the relevant file, rather than having to hunt through the document looking for fields.

As for editing, I'd expect it'd be similar to what you see now in Zotero and Word/OpenOffice integration.