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| ===I have bibliographies in Microsoft Word documents, PDFs, and other text files. Can I import them into my Zotero library?=== | ===I have bibliographies in Microsoft Word documents, PDFs, and other text files. Can I import them into my Zotero library?=== |
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| If the references have ISBNs, DOIs, or PubMed IDs, you can also use the [[:getting_stuff_into_your_library#add_item_by_identifier|Add Item by Identifier]] function in Zotero to quickly add these items to your Zotero library. | If the references have ISBNs, DOIs, or PubMed IDs, you can also use the [[:getting_stuff_into_your_library#add_item_by_identifier|Add Item by Identifier]] function in Zotero to quickly add these items to your Zotero library. |
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| For cases where you only have access to the plain-text citations and bibliography, you can use third party tools to extract bibliographic data from the formatted bibliographies: | For cases where you only have access to the plain-text citations and bibliography, you can use third party tools to extract bibliographic data from the formatted bibliographies. Perhaps the best and easiest option is [[http://anystyle.io|AnyStyle]], an online bibliography parser that can be trained for improved results. Alternative options include: |
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| - [[http://www.molspaces.com/d_cb2bib-overview.php|cb2Bib]] is a tool that will take formatted references copied to the clipboard and attempt to parse the individual bibliography fields into the BibTeX format, which you can then import into Zotero. See the [[http://forums.zotero.org/search/?PostBackAction=Search&Keywords=cb2bib&Type=Comments&btnSubmit=Search|related forum threads]] for discussion of the difficulty of the problem as well as some success stories with cb2Bib. | - [[http://www.molspaces.com/d_cb2bib-overview.php|cb2Bib]] is a tool that will take formatted references copied to the clipboard and attempt to parse the individual bibliography fields into the BibTeX format, which you can then import into Zotero. See the [[http://forums.zotero.org/search/?PostBackAction=Search&Keywords=cb2bib&Type=Comments&btnSubmit=Search|related forum threads]] for discussion of the difficulty of the problem as well as some success stories with cb2Bib. |
| - [[http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/|Simple Text Query]], a tool by CrossRef, tries to find the Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) of the journal articles, books or chapters cited in a bibliography. The work flow here would be to paste the bibliography in the text box on this website, check out the resulting DOIs to see if the references have been correctly identified and then import these references from the publisher's websites into Zotero. | - [[http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/|Simple Text Query]], a tool by CrossRef, tries to find the Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) of the journal articles, books or chapters cited in a bibliography. The work flow here would be to paste the bibliography in the text box on this website, check out the resulting DOIs to see if the references have been correctly identified and then import these references from the publisher's websites into Zotero. |
| - [[http://www.wizfolio.com/|Wizfolio]], an online reference management service. It works similar to cb2Bib and Simple Text Query tool from CrossRef, in that it tries to parse the bibliographic fields and searches for Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). The workflow would be: Via [[http://help.wizfolio.com/Contents/AddMenu.aspx?clipboard=1/|Wizfolio's Import from Clipboard]], it is possible to copy citations from an article, create a categorised reference list (looked up e.g. in Pubmed), export the list and import this list into Zotero. It's not perfect (e.g.: worked for 1/3 of the references on a set of citations without titles). However, it combines multi-citation import with database lookup of the bibliographic fields. The free signup has a limit of 50 citations per month. When using the clipboard function in Wizfolio, the references have to be split by a blank line. See also this [[http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5053/autoimport-of-references-from-an-article/|related forum thread]]. | - [[http://www.wizfolio.com/|Wizfolio]], an online reference management service. It works similar to cb2Bib and Simple Text Query tool from CrossRef, in that it tries to parse the bibliographic fields and searches for Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). The workflow would be: Via [[http://help.wizfolio.com/Contents/AddMenu.aspx?clipboard=1/|Wizfolio's Import from Clipboard]], it is possible to copy citations from an article, create a categorised reference list (looked up e.g. in Pubmed), export the list and import this list into Zotero. It's not perfect (e.g.: worked for 1/3 of the references on a set of citations without titles). However, it combines multi-citation import with database lookup of the bibliographic fields. The free signup has a limit of 50 citations per month. When using the clipboard function in Wizfolio, the references have to be split by a blank line. See also this [[http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5053/autoimport-of-references-from-an-article/|related forum thread]]. |
| - [[http://anystyle.io|AnyStyle]] is an open-source tool and [[http://anystyle.io|online bibliography parser]]; it allows you to train the parser with your bibliography for improved parse results. | |
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| Otherwise, your best option is to find the items online in a repository that Zotero supports, or, as a last resort, manually enter the references. | Otherwise, your best option is to find the items online in a repository that Zotero supports, or, as a last resort, manually enter the references. |
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