integrating citations from multiple documents

I'm sure that this topic has been tackled before, but can't seem to turn up the right forum discussion. Basically, I am completing a book manuscript of around 300 pages, divided into seven different Word documents. Is it possible to:

1) create an integrated bibliography out of the citations from all of these documents? The main option would seem to be pasting all the Word docs together, but I think it would be risky to create a 300+ page Word doc.

2) link the various chapter files in such a way that citation footnotes to do not repeat themselves - i.e. if I first cite a work in ch. 1 (with the full Chicago-style citation), then can citations of the same work in subsequent chapters appear in the shorter form?

Any help would be appreciated. I am running Zotero 2.1.6, MacWord Integration 3.1.2, and Word 2008 on OSX.
  • You should just paste the chapters together. Long .doc files are by far not the problem they used to be. I still find it recommendable to author in chapters, but pasting those together in the end is no problem - my guess would be that this is how a majority of dissertations worldwide are produced.
    (Note that you can't paste into an empty document - the Zotero refs will get lost. Either you insert one random citation into the empty doc before pasting, or you just start with the introduction and then paste all other chapter behind it.)
    needless to say, keep a copy of the individual chapters for security.

    Afaik there is no other way to get 1) and 2) with Zotero, which does not work with master documents.
  • Thanks - I appreciate it.
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