How can I make an annotated bibliography with Zotero?

DebSchiff
Hi Folks,
I'm using the 2.0 beta and I'd like to be able to export all my info with the notes as an annotated bibliography. I saw how the reports come out, and that's not what I'm looking for. Has anyone done this yet?
Thanks!
Deb Schiff
  • adamsmith
    Unfortunately, you can't put the notes in a bibliography. There is not good way of doing this at the moment.
  • knittenkitten
    Why can the "generate report" function be mixed with the create bib function? I will have everything I need for an annotated bib if the create report function had a more APA format to it?

    I think the thing to do would be to work on the "generate report" because near as I can tell that is where my notes are. If soneome decides to take this one, please use APA.

    I am not a developer/programmer so if someone tells me how to make a style sheet or something, it is wasted on me. I am a straight up user. cheers, MJ
  • Tjowens
    Improving the report generation functions has been on the list of to dos for a long time, but I don't think it is likely to happen in the near future.

    With that said, the easiest thing to do is just use the Abstract field for your annotations and then make one little edit to your APA CSL. You can see a general guide for making minor edits to CSL here. http://www.zotero.org/support/csl_simple_edits

    If you want to make the change go all the way to the bottom of he CSL editor, just before
    </layout>

    and add
    <text variable="abstract" prefix="
    "/>

    including the line break between the quotation marks

    See this thread for further discussion: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/73/annotated-bibliography/

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