Well, since my idea was more a quick-and-dirty solution (or a semi-automatic way to change the citations in a document) it doesn't matter whether Endnote's plugin is closed source or not. I hope that somebody comes up with a solution, because I cannot use Zotero as long as there's no easy option to change my citations to Endnote in my documents.įrom what I understand, Endnote's Word plugin is closed source and inaccessible, so there is no easy way for any program to interface with it. Endnote can manually be inserted by the user). If my explanation of the idea for the plugin was not understandable: it's just finding one inserted Zotero-citation in a document after another, delete it and then place the cursor's position right there (so that the new citation with e.g. Has anyone with programming skills an idea of how complex this could be and if there might be possibilities to maybe finance something like this by crowdfunding. The idea for the plugin that I suggested should (I imagine) be relatively simple to programme. I imagine the largest obstacle for many people to use Zotero is that they are sometimes forced to provide their documents with citations of some proprietary citation manager software. Is there anybody with a good idea or solution for switching inserted citations in MS Word oder LibreOffice Writer from Zotero to Endnote. It's quite some time ago that I started this post. As it is much more productive to work with Zotero at the moment I'm changing all the references in the document before handing it over, but that is quite a tedious task :( I am in the situation that I really like Zotero, but I am forced to provide my finished documents with all citations inserted with EndNote. For a short document the above described procedure wouldn't take longer than 10 to 15 minutes and even for large documents like a thesis this would be done in an hour – thanks a comparably small effort and would enable anybody to use Zotero even if he/she is forced to submit documents with embedded citations of proprietary citation managers like EndNote. I think such an option could really encourage people to use Zotero as it would be relatively easy to replace citations with other reference managers for compatibility reasons. Unfortunately I have no programming skills to provide any code. I hope my explanation was more or less understandable. By clicking a Next-button in the Plugin Window the next Zotero-citation would be deleted, the cursor set to it's old position and the deleted source would be displayed in the plugin window telling the user which citation to choose from EndNote. One would then just have to choose the according citation in the preferered citation manager (eg EndNote) which would be inserted directly where the Zotero-citation was, because the cursor is in that position. In a separate window, which would be displayed permanently, the deleted citation is shown, so that one would know which one had just been deleted.
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The plugin could delete all the in-text citations one by one and each time place the cursor to the position where the citation was. I could imagine the following strategie (either directly implemented in Zotero itself or as a separate plugin/macro for MS Word or LibreOffice) to replace all Zotero references in a document with ones from EndNote: However, I wonder if there is a comparably simple option to accomplish that. I can totally understand that this would be an extremely copmlex or even impossible task to programm.
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By going through the forum discussions I've seen that a frequent request is switching the citation manager in a document (eg from Zoteros' Word Processor Plugins to EndNote or Citavi or vice versa).