annotated bibliography
This probably replicates the notes and tags request, but right now Zotero will not print annotations of bibliographical material. It would help for preparing syllabi and reading lists for grad students.
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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
New to this product and would like to know ... so is there any easy way to produce an Annotated Bibliography with Zotero? This aspect does not appear to be very user friendly.
Thank you
Cheers!
See also instructions on modifying any style to generate annotated bibliographies using the abstract field for annotations.
Very helpful.
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
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.
Thanks very much.
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.
Still love the software and am appreciative of it every day.
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.
At present it works with firefox version 3.5 but not version 3.6 until some upstream bugs are fixed. The advantage of my approach is that it prints out the notes, and related items - it's kind of like an improvement to the built in Zotero report. You'll want Zotero's default citation output style to be one that doesn't print out an abstract though.
For instance, for the web site http://www.whatsabyte.com where I've typed a short description into the extra field, I get:
“Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes - What Are They?,” n.d. http://www.whatsabyte.com/.<div style="text-indent:0.5in;">Web site giving some nice specific examples about how much computer storage various things, such as all the books in the Library of Congress, would occupy.