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Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by decasia on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:18AM (#17607910)
Your information might be outdated -- In the latest version of Zotero, when you add a PDF to Zotero, it automatically retrieves the metadata via DOI lookup.

(I don't think it would work with papers too old to have DOIs but haven't checked lately.)

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Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by ekphrasis on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:49AM (#17608058)
The metadata retrieval pairs with a DOI or ISBN [1]. Articles without such handles might not work, nor will articles which are not OCR'ed (obviously) but this can be easily fixed with OCR scanning software.

The metadata retrieval process is a very handy feature, especially paired with Zotero's web browser plugin.

Zotero also keeps a repository of all the citation styles, which are curated and administered by the Zotero team and stored in a Github repo [2].

[1] https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-5-0-36/

|2] https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles

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