Scrivener is awesome software for writing, that I’ve before, but I had yet to really test out the integration with (my citation manager of choice). So now that I have finally started on my dissertation writing in earnest (and not grant writing), I needed to make sure that footnotes are usable in my work flow. So this is a quick write up of the tools I will use in writing my dissertation, and how I will use them. The Tools: Free and Open Source document software.

Zotero scans through and replaces those odd pieces of code with citations in a new version of the document. Change the citation format through Document Preferences icon in the Zotero toolbar: My new document now includes the full citations.

Who knows how long I will have access to free Microsoft Word? LibreOffice (the fork of OpenOffice) will always be free and freely available. The steps will be basically the same if you are using Microsoft Word, just substitute that program for LibreOffice when it comes to it.: I’m certainly biased, but Zotero is the greatest citation management software evar! Also free and open source. I’m using the stand alone version, but you can use the Firefox extension as well. Should work the same.: The greatest writing software I’ve seen.

So good I even paid for it. I don’t usually do that with software (as you can see, I like free and open source). The Process Here I will try to outline the process I found that will save footnotes from existing documents into Scrivener, and Scrivener created footnotes into exported documents. From there, it’s easy to create Zotero connected footnotes. Copy existing documents with footnotes into Scrivener. Copy from LibreOffice The first issue to run across is to put your existing documents into scrivener. I wrote a paper for Hist 811 that is basically the bulk of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of the dissertation.

It’s needs some finessing in order to fit in the dissertation. It would be a shame to lose the footnotes, which is what happens if you just use Scrivener’s import file process.

This is an easy fix. Just copy the text from your document and paste it into a Scrivener text area. Then with your Scrivener project open, create a new text area, or select an existing one, which ever, and paste it in. Nothing special there. Create new footnotes in Scrivener.

Select the reference in Zotero and drag it into the footnote box in Scrivener. Zotero makes it easy to put the reference in that new empty footnote with drag and drop citations. Just pull up your Zotero (either from Firefox, or if you have the standalone version). Select the reference you want, and drag it into the empty footnote section. Moving from Scrivener to a document, and keeping your footnotes! So, ideally, you would be able to export your text document, and all of these lovely footnotes you have made in Scrivener, using Zotero, would just magically work in a Word or LibreOffice document. It doesn’t, yet (or ever?).

So here is how to get your footnotes into a document, and then get those footnotes to be Zotero enabled. All my citations are in the house! How to archive in outlook quick steps. You will notice that all of your footnotes are in this file. Sometimes the text had odd font sizes and styles.

So a quick ‘Select All’ and change it to default style and Times New Roman, 12 pt should fix that right up. Now here is the labor intensive part.

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For each footnote, we’re going to have to recreate it so that it is handled by Zotero. Then we’ll delete the original footnote.

It would be nice of Scrivener could export the footnotes in a way that Zotero could detect them, but alas it is not to be. Now you add a citation through the zotero buttons to make a zotero-aware citation. • Post author Tavia, You’re right. It is a lot more work than just using a word processor and Zotero. What I really like about Scrivener is the ability to organize my writing into bits a pieces, and then be able to easily reorganize those bits. In a normal word processor, your writing is one long continuous flow of text. You can add headings and such to break it up, but my mind doesn’t work so well with that.