Has anyone come up with a solution for this problem yet? Suppose I have 30 articles in my database and I have 5 notes for each article. I can highlight them all and have Zotero generate an HTML report but this has two problems:
1. The bibilographic info is not formatted in a standard style (instead all info is displayed)
2. I am not sure how to preserve the nice HTML layout when pasting this into word (I suspect there is an easy workaround for this)

I can highlight the items and have Zotero generate a bibliography, however this has one major problem -
1. The notes are not listed in full (just the first line from each note)

I see a handful of people have requested this functionality over the last couple of years. Any suggestions?

Thanks

I would also like to say that the feature of an annotated bibliography would be great. Maybe with the 1.5 or 2.0 update?

Cheers!

Take a look at the "Chicago Manual of Style (Annotated Bibliography)" style here: http://www.zotero.org/styles You can use it to do what you want if you enter your annotations in the extra field. This is a temporary workaround until the ticket for the annotated bibliography export option is closed.

See also instructions on modifying any style to generate annotated bibliographies using the abstract field for annotations.

Sorry to be dim here, but what is the 'extra field'

The field at the bottom of the Info tab that's literally called "Extra".

I'm coming to this conversation late but would also love some style (preferably APA) to have a "with annotations" bibliography version which would include abstracts. I'm trying to find the instructions for modifying styles mentioned in the post by erazlogo above on February 21, but that link just goes to the same place as the link for the ticket mentioned in the same post. I'm not at all sure I'd be successful in modifying any style but I'd like to give it a try if I could find good instructions! Thanks.

I've made an MLA style incorporating adamsmith's code which uses the abstract field to generate the annotation text for a MLA style annotated bibliography(you're welcome ENG122 students).

You can download it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019097/mlaannotated.csl

Just drag and drop the file into firefox to install it; not that I expect you to trust me but I promise it's not a virus or anything! It's simply the original mla.csl with adamsmith's code added.

I recommend some devs add this to svn because I won't be keeping the file up forever. I'm too busy/lazy(whichever you prefer) to add it myself!

EDIT:
I've cleaned up the original a bit and added the ability to use the "extra" field as a sponsor which is separated by a comma from the publication date. I've also added a period after the abbreviated month.

Here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019097/mlaannotated.csl

Sample:
Mook, Nate. “Mass. Finalizes Plan to Drop MS Office.” Betanews. Betanews, Inc., 23 Sep. 2005. Web. 27 Jan. 2010.
The Massachussetts state government has made the decision to move away from proprietary document formats based on the reccomendation of its IT Advisory Board. Instead, they will be implementing the OpenDocument format for all government related documents in the future. Microsoft expresses their disappointment of the decision in a letter to Massachussetts CIO Peter Quinn.
This is a shining example of change in support of Free and Open Source Software. The fact that the state of Massachussetts recognizes the benefits to using F/OSS lends much credibility to my argument.

Here's the same thing only without annotation: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019097/mlasponsor.csl

Sample:
Mook, Nate. “Mass. Finalizes Plan to Drop MS Office.” Betanews. Betanews, Inc., 23 Sep. 2005. Web. 27 Jan. 2010.

If by annotated you mean including the abstract, this is the crucial information:

http://www.zotero.org/support/csl_simple_edits
is the general guide,

What you want to do is to put all the way to the bottom, just before
</layout>

the lines
<text variable="abstract" prefix="
"/>

including the line break between the quotation marks
Let me know what is unclear.

you'll need a separate style:
go here
http://gist.github.com/374729
download the style by right-clicking on "Raw" at the top right and
"Save LInk as..."
you'll have a file called apa-annotated.csl
drag and drop it to any open Firefox Window and it will install.

Once installed you can select between Annotated American Psych...
and the regular style.

Btw. You should have more confidence - the instructions above for making slight modifications to styles are not for programmers - they're written in a way that _anyone_ can follow them (or at least we try to write them that way)- it's just a question of not getting scared.

By the way, I looked over the annotated style from github and compared it to the original. Now I think I have a somewhat better understanding of what you're talking about.

This worked for me! I've spent the last year creating annotated bibliographies by hand, because it always seemed quicker than figuring out how to do it through the different styles. I guess I'll be more proactive next time. Thanks!

is that using the Word plugin or using drag&drop?

I downloaded the APA annotated style but its not adding the annotation when I generate the bibliography. Any suggestions?

I put it in the notes section...I changed it the the abstract section however and that fixed it.....I think haha.

THANKS FOR THE HELP!

I don't think so - see my instructions above - this really isn't hard to do yourself.