Thanks so much for your super helpful video series! On another note, seeing your library, I would recommend the book Evolution's Achilles' Heels by Robert Carter (Editor), it is a personal favourite of mine.
Thank you, it has been really helpful. While i've cited at the end of my sentence and try to continue another sentence just after the citation box then the next sentence continues from the cited words and i cant separate it from the next sentence (except when i press inter and leave a paragraph), how can i solve this issue.. thanks in advance
Hi Sachin! I am glad you found the video helpful. As for the issue you just explained, I have noticed that too. In LibreOffice, one option would be to click on Zotero’s Refresh icon. A pop-up dialogue will ask you to click on “Yes if you wan to keep the changes that you made inside the Zotero citation filed, i.e. the grey area, or click on “No” to discard the change. Clicking on No, will delete all the changes made inside the grey area and will restore the original Zotero citation (but all the extra text you added inside of that area by mistake will be deleted). Then, once that is done, you can start typing AFTER the last character of the grey area, and the text will be outside of that field.
Thanks for the Video. Sadly i have a few problems with the libre writer plugin for zotero. If i have an citation style (for example APA) which is in-text like this (Exampleauthor et al., 2022) and i want to write normal text after my citation the text will be added to the citation and is also highlighted grey. My workaround would be adding a line break than backspace so im directly behind my citation and then add for example a period. The bigger problem is that if i leave the text inside my citation and update a citation (the one with normal text in it or any other one), the normal text inside every citation will be deleted (because i "changed the citation style"). Is there any possbility of "leaving" the citation field to add text after it, or can i somehow format the text which was "added" to my citation to be normal text body without being linked to zotero? Selecting the text and changing the paragraph style to normal "text body" also doesnt work because, the citation also gets recognized as "text body" by libre.
Hi. If you mean a link inside of your text to click on and to automatically get to the corresponding entry in your Zotero database, then the answer is no. There is no such external link. Everything inside the document is connected via behind-the-scene links and codes. That’s how Zotero can tell which in-text citation belongs to which reference. But those links are internal to the document and will not take you to Zotero. Zotero understands them when it sees them and then it acts accordingly. Those links go nowhere outside of the document though.
@@EricBright I meant within my document. If I have citation like (example, 2023) and I click on it I will linked to my „References“ part with full citation of (example, 2023).
The in-text citation is “linked” to the references in a different sense: they are related and Zotero can see the relationship. They are not “linked” in a common sense so nothing happens inside of your document when you click on them. I guess you might have something like an endnote in mind, where clicking on the endnote in the text will make the word-processor to jump to the corresponding note at the end of your document. Citations don’t do that. They are not clickable in that sense.
@@cypherecon5989 I don’t think so. The Zotero mechanism for in-text citation is not meant to do that (or I have not seen such a feature in Zotero so far). Zotero’s use of “Bookmarks” in .docx documents is such that they are formatted and used for Zotero’s internal use and must be left untouched. Although both MS Word and LibreOffice show them in the list of bookmarks in your document (if Zotero’s preference is set to use bookmarks instead of fields), unfortunately, they will not come with any recognizable name. If clicked in the list of your document’s bookmarks, then you will jump to the location of that particular “bookmark” in the document (which is an in-text citation). But again, they are not connected to the references the way you want them to.
Very Helpful, Thank you Eric
Good to hear that it was helpful my friend. Thank you for your kind comment! ❤
Wow! Thank you. I don't know how to thank you for saving my nerves and energy.
You are welcome! I am glad it helped. 🤗
Very helpful. Excellent video. Simple and straight to the point.
Thank you! Very nice and easy to follow tutorial :)
😁Thank you very much for this very helpfull video on ending citation chaos
Excellent video! Very educational and helpful.
Thank you kindly! 🙏🏼
Thanks so much for your super helpful video series!
On another note, seeing your library, I would recommend the book Evolution's Achilles' Heels by Robert Carter (Editor), it is a personal favourite of mine.
Thank you so much. This helped a lot. Cheers!!
nice and easy😀
Thank you.
You are welcome! 😊
Thank you so so much!
You are very welcome! 🤗
thanks
Thank you, it has been really helpful. While i've cited at the end of my sentence and try to continue another sentence just after the citation box then the next sentence continues from the cited words and i cant separate it from the next sentence (except when i press inter and leave a paragraph), how can i solve this issue.. thanks in advance
Hi Sachin! I am glad you found the video helpful. As for the issue you just explained, I have noticed that too. In LibreOffice, one option would be to click on Zotero’s Refresh icon. A pop-up dialogue will ask you to click on “Yes if you wan to keep the changes that you made inside the Zotero citation filed, i.e. the grey area, or click on “No” to discard the change. Clicking on No, will delete all the changes made inside the grey area and will restore the original Zotero citation (but all the extra text you added inside of that area by mistake will be deleted). Then, once that is done, you can start typing AFTER the last character of the grey area, and the text will be outside of that field.
My citation dialogue isn't appearing, it just brings up my Zotero screen and I'm unsure what to do. any help please?
Thanks for the Video. Sadly i have a few problems with the libre writer plugin for zotero. If i have an citation style (for example APA) which is in-text like this (Exampleauthor et al., 2022) and i want to write normal text after my citation the text will be added to the citation and is also highlighted grey. My workaround would be adding a line break than backspace so im directly behind my citation and then add for example a period. The bigger problem is that if i leave the text inside my citation and update a citation (the one with normal text in it or any other one), the normal text inside every citation will be deleted (because i "changed the citation style"). Is there any possbility of "leaving" the citation field to add text after it, or can i somehow format the text which was "added" to my citation to be normal text body without being linked to zotero? Selecting the text and changing the paragraph style to normal "text body" also doesnt work because, the citation also gets recognized as "text body" by libre.
Is there a setting that there is a link connection between the citation in my text to my literature list?
Hi. If you mean a link inside of your text to click on and to automatically get to the corresponding entry in your Zotero database, then the answer is no. There is no such external link.
Everything inside the document is connected via behind-the-scene links and codes. That’s how Zotero can tell which in-text citation belongs to which reference. But those links are internal to the document and will not take you to Zotero. Zotero understands them when it sees them and then it acts accordingly. Those links go nowhere outside of the document though.
@@EricBright I meant within my document. If I have citation like (example, 2023) and I click on it I will linked to my „References“ part with full citation of (example, 2023).
The in-text citation is “linked” to the references in a different sense: they are related and Zotero can see the relationship. They are not “linked” in a common sense so nothing happens inside of your document when you click on them. I guess you might have something like an endnote in mind, where clicking on the endnote in the text will make the word-processor to jump to the corresponding note at the end of your document. Citations don’t do that. They are not clickable in that sense.
@@EricBright Is there a way that they behave like that?
@@cypherecon5989 I don’t think so. The Zotero mechanism for in-text citation is not meant to do that (or I have not seen such a feature in Zotero so far).
Zotero’s use of “Bookmarks” in .docx documents is such that they are formatted and used for Zotero’s internal use and must be left untouched. Although both MS Word and LibreOffice show them in the list of bookmarks in your document (if Zotero’s preference is set to use bookmarks instead of fields), unfortunately, they will not come with any recognizable name. If clicked in the list of your document’s bookmarks, then you will jump to the location of that particular “bookmark” in the document (which is an in-text citation). But again, they are not connected to the references the way you want them to.