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workshop handout - Zotero 5.0

workshop recording posted on YouTube 

Learning resources

• Mastering Zotero https://zotero-manual.github.io/citations/
• Zotero documentation https://www.zotero.org/support/
• Zotero guide https://libguides.graduateinstitute.ch/zotero
  
  

Q&A:

• How to add footnote/endnote that is a parenthetical thought rather than a citation of a source?
  Answer: Use Word's insert footnote function. You can't use Zotero's insert a citation feature since no citation is used, and you can't just use the prefix or suffix to do that. Use both Word's insert footnote function and Zotero's insert citation function may introduce inconsistency of the formatting in footnote. 
  • can edit after unlinking Zotero citations
  • or manage word style in Word, for footnote references
• What to do if you want two things in one footnote:  both a parenthetical thought and a citation of a source from zotero? enter sentences between references (see for example:...., for a list of relevant works see...) within the footnote.
  Answer: Place the cursor in the Zotero reference, click the Add/Edit Citation button, then click on the blue reference bubble in the pop up dialog. You can enter that sort of text in the prefix/suffix fields.
• If I “insert footnote/endnote” through the MS Word program in same document where I’m inserting Zotero footnotes, will the two systems work perfectly fine together and respect each other to combine the numbering of footnotes?
  Answer: Adding both Zotero citations (using the Zotero plugin) and informational footnotes (using Word’s footnote feature) is no problem. 
• How to share PDF files in a Zotero collection?
  • Right click over the collection -> Export Collection... ->Zotero RDF. Zotero will create a folder that contains both a .rdf file and a folder that contains the PDF files.  
• How to annotate PDF files in Zotero?
  • Zotero doesn't have features to annotate PDF files. However, if you right-click on a PDF within Zotero and select View PDF, the PDF will be opened in the PDF viewer of your computer. You can highlight sentences, annotate the document, click on save and close the document, and your annotations will be saved. 
  • Additionally, Zotfile, a Zotero plugin to manage your PDF attachments, can automatically rename, move, and attach PDFs (or other files) to Zotero items. Zotfile can automatically extract the highlighted text and the annotations and save them in a Zotero note.
  • Zotero Tutorial: Working with PDFs, a very clear instructional video on how to annotate PDFs and how to extract annotations from PDFs with Zotfile. 

Citation styles

• Chicago style prints English journal article titles in title case, not sentence case: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
• Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/cmos_formatting_and_style_guide/chicago_manual_of_style_17th_edition.html
  • Author-Date: Sample Citations https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html
    • Author-Date sample paper https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/cmos_formatting_and_style_guide/cmos_author_date_sample_paper.html
      Note: place author-date citations before a mark of punctuation whenever possible, and note that parenthetical citations usually follow direct quotations, but it is acceptable to place them before such a quotation if it allows the date to be placed next to the author's name. 
  • Notes and Bibliography: Sample Citations https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
    • Foot note sample paper https://research.wou.edu/ld.php?content_id=47206792 orSamplePaper
      Note: numbers should be placed at the end of the clause or sentence to which they refer and should be placed after all punctuation except the dash.
• APA 7th ediiton https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html