Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research

Re:Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite... by jiggunjer on Sunday January 02, 2022 @07:09PM (#29775634)

Having used Zotero, Mendeley and Endnote I ended up on Endnote. I like their metadata scraping, their Word plugin and that many journals offer a pre-configured reference template. But yes as a DBMS it lacks alot in the filter/grouping features and date fields don't convert format intelligently.

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Re:Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite... by kuhewa on Sunday January 02, 2022 @10:49PM (#29777128)

First manuscript in my PhD I just hand-typed the bibliography. But when you get to a few hundred in a document and over 1000 relevant to your work that you want to keep track of, ah and when you need to resubmit manuscripts with a different reference format, and once I made the jump to actually using it and figuring out a few of the quirks, I now quite like Endnote since my institution has a site licence.

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Re:Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite... by jiggunjer on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:01PM (#29782952)

Yes. Professionals don't hand-edit references in the writing document. Update the template and click refresh. That said, I also use Endnote because it's free for me.

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Re:Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite... by anakaine on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:30AM (#29792331)

I quite like Endnote. I'm unsure if Zotero has a Word plugin.

In Word, alt-1 click reference, alt-2.

Its done. Reference inserted. Bibliography updated. Sweet.

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