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Re:Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite... by Gatsky on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:20AM (#29777919)
I see, so you wrote your own solution which you have to maintain and extend for each different citation style… pros and cons to that obviously.

Why is it so important that a citation system works in 2003 and in 2021? Papers once published become historical artefacts essentially.

Re:Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite... by westcort on Monday January 03, 2022 @10:13AM (#29781507)
I am thinking of one particular journal that had a problem with historical reference libraries under RefMan that all broke after the EndNote migration. A library of thousands of purchased articles, including pivotal trials that are commonly referenced, essentially became inaccessible after RefMan was purchased by EndNote. I believe EndNote also remotely inactivated the software and engaged in some other chicanery. That experience turned me off of reference manager software. Maybe Zotero has gotten it right this time! I don't know. I just know that few things last in tech and least of all libraries of data housed in software that may or may not be updated or supported by future systems.