Comments on: Zotero Wins Citefest

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:18:13 +0000

Zotero apparently doesn't import the DOI numbers from the Medline entries in PubMed, which is a big lack. Without DOI numbers, there's no stable links to article full-text entries.

By: Cecilia Tellis

Cecilia Tellis — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:50:50 +0000

I was checking to see if Zotero included any legal citation styles and found a Law forum here: http://forums.zotero.org/8/ which has a section on the Bluebook. Looks like it may still be a style in development? http://www.zotero.org/styles

By: michael lines

michael lines — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:36:43 +0000

Can you give me a link to the Bluebook style? I wasn't able to find it on the site…

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:25:35 +0000

Thanks for the info, Michael. It's a shame I wasn't able to point my husband, a physicist, to this last week when he was finishing a paper. He's now tried it in the scientific context and gives his own strong endorsement, FWIW after Citefest.

He says "it is brilliant, and it works amazingly well with Medline/PubMed… You can organize your bibliography and, what is best, generate your bibliography for papers with a few mouse clicks. You can save your bibliography as a text file sent to your clipboard and insert references while your writing your paper with PubMed open on Firefox [it's a free add-on to FF]. This is a real time-saver!"

As for a Canadian legal citation style (a Bluebook style module can be installed already), Zotero is open source, so if anyone wants to give this a go…

Kim