Zotero Word for Mac Integration This is a Firefox add-on that consists of a library written in ObjC that communicates with Microsoft Word out of process using AppleScript, a js-ctypes wrapper for said library, and a template that is installed into Microsoft Word to. Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes. In this guide, I will demonstrate how to use the reference manager Zotero to swiftly add and remove citations into a Microsoft Word document. THE ONLINE GUID.
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An active community of Zotero users has developed a variety of plugins to provide enhancements, new features, and interfaces with other programs.
To install a plugin in Zotero, download its
.xpi
file to your computer. Then, in Zotero, click “Tools → Add-Ons”, then drag the .xpi
for the plugin onto the Add-Ons window that opens.Note: for apps and plugins for mobile devices, see mobile.
New Features and Enhancements
Item Metadata Import
- Add physical books to Zotero by scanning their barcodes with your iPhone or iPad
- Automatically retrieves author ORCID profiles to see related works.
- Automatically archives webpages and journals for future viewing.
- Replaces all links susceptible to link rot with permanent DOI URLs.
- Exports in a variety of formats (MLA, BibTeX, APA, etc.) to represent archival status.
- Google Scholar Citations for Zotero, by Anton Beloglazov, currently maintained by Max Kuehn.
- Add Google Scholar citation counts to items in your Zotero library.
- Look up DOI names from CrossRef automatically.
- Automatically retrieve shortDOI names from http://shortdoi.org and replace them in the Zotero DOI field.
- Check DOI validity and mark items with invalid DOIs.
- Clean the DOI field (e.g., to remove http://doi.org/).
- Tries to set the date from the Last Modified header from the URL if the date is not set
- Plugin to show if references in Zotero have PubPeer comments
- Similar to Zotero's built-in integration with Retraction Watch
- Plugin to import a folder of attachment files from your computer into a Zotero collection hierarchy.
- Useful for transitioning to Zotero from a manual folder-based organization system.
- Plugin to fetch PMCID/PMID for items with a DOI.
Attachment File Management
- Zotero plugin to automatically rename, move, and attach PDFs (or other files) to Zotero items.
- Scan your Zotero storage folder for missing attachments and possible duplicates
- Download your attachments into your e-reader using OPDS
- Zotero OCR, by Philipp Zumstein
- Perform automatic text recognition (OCR) on PDFs with image layer only
Zotero Reports
- Web form to customize your Zotero reports.
- Plugin to customize your Zotero reports.
Interface Tools
- Adds additional editing functions and exposes Zotero functions for keyboard shortcuts.
- Zotero plugin adding QuickLook functionality to Zotero.
- Adds minimize to system tray functionality for Linux and Windows.
- A Zotero extension which keeps the full-text index updated. Beta release. If you have ZotFile installed, Auto-index will also kick off auto-extraction of notes.
Library Analysis/Visualization
- Visualize your Zotero collections using Voyant.
- Allows you to create network maps of Zotero items using the Related feature.
Website Integration
WordPress
- WordPress plugin to show Zotero citations on WordPress (with an optional thumbnail image).
- WordPress plugin to embed a COinS tag in each blog post, making metadata visible to Zotero (post title, author, date, blog title, categories, and URL).
- WordPress plugin to embed a COinS tag in each blog post, making metadata visible to Zotero (post title, author, date, blog title, categories, and URL).
- WordPress plugin to embed a COinS tag to something other than the blog post itself (such as a journal article or book). The COinS entries can be made in the post editor.
- WordPress Plugin to display a book's cover image, title, author, publisher and other metadata from Open Library.
- WordPress unAPI Server, by Mike Giarlo and Peter Binkley.
- WordPress Plugin to exposes blog metadata via unAPI.
SPIP
- SPIP plugin to synchronise a Zotero library with SPIP (a content management system). References can be presented in web pages and searched through a dedicated webpage. A complementary plugin (BiblioCheck) allows a research unit to manage corrections to apply to the unit bibliography. (PHP)
Drupal
- Drupal module that provides one-way syncing from Zotero to Drupal's biblio module.
Omeka
- Omeka plugin to import items from Zotero into an Omeka repository.
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BibBase
- Show any Zotero library, collection, or group on any web site, e.g., your own publications page. Example.
Flask (Python)
- Synchronizes with your Zotero library to provide a user-friendly yet powerful search and browsing interface for an online bibliography. Demo.
General
- Generates interactive web bibliographies based on one or more collections in a Zotero repository. The content generated is static. The program is meant to be run regularly.
- Exports a local Zotero library to an HTML website.
- View collections, item metadata, notes, and attachment files in convenient layout.
- Syncing to the Zotero.org servers is not required.
Zotero For Mac
Word Processor and Writing Integration
Word and LibreOffice
Zotero For Macbook
- Cite items from your Zotero library in Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs.
- Extract embedded Zotero and Mendeley references from Word .docx files for import into Zotero.
- Select the items in your Zotero library which have been cited in a Word .docx file.
LaTeX, TeX, and Text Editors
- Make Zotero useful for LaTeX holdouts
- Enables integration with various plain-text editors
- Zotero plugin for integration with the LyX TeX editor.
- Zotero plugin for integration with the BibDesk bibliographic manager for Mac OS X.
- Cite items from your Zotero library while writing in plain text.
- zot4rst offers reStructuredText integration
- Atom Zotero integration, by Emiliano Heyns.
- Cite items from your Zotero library in Atom Editor.
- Brackets Zotero integration, by Wasif Hasan Baig.
- Cite items from your Zotero library in Adobe Brackets.
- VS Code Citation Picker for Zotero, by mblode.
- Bring up the Zotero citation picker within VS Code
- Open attachments from a Zotero database from within Emacs
Statistical Software
- RStudio has native integration with Zotero as part of its Visual Markdown editor.
- Works without the BetterBibTeX plugin, but installing BetterBibTeX can permit more control over item citation keys.
- Requires RStudio v1.4 or higher. Currently only available in the RStudio Daily build. Daily builds are intended for testing purposes, and are not recommended for general use.
- Integrates R/RStudio with Zotero.
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- Integrates R/RStudio with Zotero.
- In R, run
- Integrates Python/Jupyter Notebook with Zotero.
Other Programs
- RTF/ODF-Scan for Zotero, by Frank Bennett, Sebastian Karcher.
- Enables active citations in any word processor capable of saving/exporting to .odt (e.g., Scrivener, Google Docs)
- Step 1: Insert citations in your wordprocessor of choice;
- Step 3: Convert markers to live Zotero citations.
- Create bibliographies in ONLYOFFICE editors from items in your Zotero online library
- Basic implementation of a Zotero to Indesign export, allowing for LaTeX style citations of Zotero items in Adobe's InDesign
- Cite items from your Zotero library in GNU TeXmacs, a feature-rich WYSIWYG scientific word processor with high quality typesetting.
- Takes advantage of the BetterBibTeX plugin if installed, but also works without it.
- Export item metadata and notes as Markdown files
CSL Style Development
Zotero For Mac
- A powerful and convenient tool for on-the-fly automatic testing and validation of CSL styles with any editor.
- Requires a few tools on the target system (node.js, mocha, and java), but otherwise installs with a single command.
Developer Tools
Zotero Client and Plugins
- Sample Zotero plugin.
- Scaffold, by Zotero, Avram Lyon, and Rintze Zelle.
- Plugin scaffold generator, by Emiliano Heyns.
- A Yeoman generator to create a typescript-based plugin scaffold. Includes build scripts and a Travis workflow to publish updatable XPIs as GitHub releases.
CSL Citation Styles
- Zotero comes with a basic editor for installed CSL styles.
- Shows previews of citations and bibliographies for selected items from your Zotero library.
- CSL Validator, by Rintze M. Zelle.
- Validate edited CSL styles to ensure they are valid CSL.
- A powerful and convenient tool for on-the-fly automatic testing and validation of CSL styles with any editor.
- Requires a few tools on the target system (node.js, mocha, and java), but otherwise installs with a single command.
Desktop and Other Program Integration
- An Alfred workflow for Mac.
- Search your library, copy formatted references into any program, and open attachments, all without using a mouse.
- Zotero Metadata Import for Calibre, by DaltonST.
- Import Zotero file attachments with metadata into Calibre.
- Qnotero, by Sebastiaan Mathôt.
- Not yet compatible with Zotero 5.0
- Not technically a plugin (it's a translator) but will export your Zotero items in a format that TheBrain can import.
- Allows customizable automatic creation of Todoist tasks for library items. Can be triggered from the context menu or automatically on item import.
Unmaintained
Several Zotero plugins are known to have been abandoned and are incompatible with current versions of Zotero, had their features incorporated into Zotero or other tools natively, or otherwise be unsuitable for general use.
These unmaintained plugins are listed here.
This discussion was created from comments split from: cannot install Word 2011 plugin with Zotero standalone (Mac).
- I'm having the same problem: no toolbar in Word 2011 for Mac. No toolbar is visible, and there is no Zotero entry under View>Toolbars. It's weird, I updated Zotero 5.0 standalone maybe a week ago, and everything worked perfectly. This morning I got some sort of notice- from Word I think- content of which I have forgotten- which I clicked OK to and then my Zotero toolbar disappeared forever.
Tools>Templates and Add-Ins: Zotero.dot is there and checked
Zotero.dot is in my Office/Startup/Word folder
Word Preferences/File Locations/Startup is pointing to the right folder
I am not running non-English Word
I have re-downloaded the firefox connector
I have disabled/reenabled the Zotero Word for Mac Integration
I have re-downloaded both the Zotero 5.0 standalone and the current dev build 5.0
I have copied the Zotero.dot into my startup/word folder (on top of the old, just in case)
can't think what else to try
please help!?! I need to get this manuscript out- - If you open the Zotero.dot file with Word, do you get the toolbar?
- No, it opens a blank Word doc, but no toolbar, and Zotero still isn't an option under view>toolbars
- edited December 18, 2017Have you tried:
- Restarting your Mac?
- Reinstalling via Zotero Preferences -> Cite -> Word Processors?
In Word menubar do you see a script icon to the far right with Zotero actions? - Restarted x2 (once earlier too)- no luck
Preferences>Cite>Word Processors>Reinstall - no luck
yes! I hadn't noticed that script icon. Can I use that instead of the menu bar?? - I'm also having this problem - this occurred after updating to Mac OS High Sierra
- @lauracalonso yes, you can use the entries and keyboard shortcuts in the script menu.
@KRolnick89 also Word 2011, though? If so, do you get the script menu icons? If you're on Word 2016, more likely related to this thread: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/69433/plug-in-issue-word-could-not-communicate-with-zotero#latest - @adamsmith Yes, Word 2011. I'm not sure what is meant by 'the script menu icons,' but I am able to add/edit citations using zotero standalone within the Word document, if that makes sense. The only change since updating to High Sierra is the toolbar's absence. Thanks!
- The apple script menu refers to this (screenshot): http://s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/9547/images/media_12580404158491.png
- Same problem for me (also Word 2011 for Mac). I've tried all the solutions suggested. I do get the apple script menu items so can add citations via that but would prefer the toolbar.
Any new solutions?? - edited December 19, 2017
It seems that a recent (latest?) update to macOS High Sierra broke Mac Word 2011. Microsoft has announced that it will not support Word 2011 with High Sierra and things may begin breaking as changes are made in the macOS. I don't think the toolbar for Mac Word 2011 is coming back unless Apple or Microsoft fix it (which I don't expect they would), so you will have to rely on the AppleScript menu option for Zotero (or the keyboard shortcuts as displayed in the menu).I've updated the knowledge base article for the missing Zotero toolbar for Word for Mac 2011. - Well that's annoying, but at least I can stop my fruitless searching. Thanks Adomasven!
- I'm pretty sure this broke with a recent update of ours, not High Sierra. If I revert to an earlier version of the plugin it works fine. We'll debug this. Stay tuned.
- I'm having the same problem. Zotero upgraded itself to 5.0 then the beloved toolbar disappeared -- aaaaagh! The work-around is functional, but I'd like to see the toolbar. Will try to disable upgrades until it is fixed.
Running Word for Mac 2011 under High Sierra. - Just wanted to add that I *just* started having this exact problem with Word 2011, High Sierra, and it definitely started after the latest Zotero update (as in, I got the update, restarted, and poof! no toolbar), not the Mac OS update. As with everyone above, tried all the suggested troubleshooting, no luck.
Thanks for your debugging help! - edited December 19, 2017Zotero 5.0.33 is now available via Help -> 'Check for Updates…' with an updated plugin that should fix the toolbar in Word 2011. Sorry for the trouble.
- It worked for me! Thank you very much - and no worries, much appreciated how helpful your team always is.
- ahhh that's better. Before this plugin update I could see the script menu options but they were dead, and now they are functional. I still can't see the toolbar, but the script now works. Thank you so much for all your help!
- edited November 27, 2018I'm with word mac 2011. And a Standalone Zotero 5.0.58 and I can't see any Zotero toolbar.... Thanks for any kind of help