That is why I will first show how I’m using this plugin now and then I will talk a bit more about how to customize the literature note and create other links to Zotero entries by hand.īack when I was using Evernote, I had one notebook per source I read and its first note was a sort of bibliographical card, with basic information so I remembered what it was a long time later (it also forced me to check the outline of a paper, for example, and get more familiar with it before reading it). When you click on that link, it opens Zotero if it is already open, it selects the reference you clicked on. It can also add other information, such as the abstract or, more interestingly… a link to your Zotero entry. Once you select one, it creates a note that, by default, uses your citation key as the title, and adds a bunch of information to the preamble of your note. With Ctrl+ Shift+ E, you get a dropdown menu in which you can search through all your entries. I will address this later, but for now let’s assume you have a BibTex file with all your Zotero data. One of its most interesting features is the literature note: a note with bibliographical information extracted from your Zotero entry… well, technically, from a BibTex file exported from Zotero (or any other bibliography manager). Note that in order for it to work properly you still need export your Zotero library and tell Obsidian where it is, as I mention below. Once you turn off ‘Safe mode’, you have to ‘browse community plugins’, search for the citation plugin, install it and enable it to use it. Then, it adds an underscore and the year.įigure 3: Window to set up Obsidian community plugins. Mine uses, in lower case, the last name of the first author, separated by a period from the last name of the second author or, if there are more than two, etal. Once you have installed Better BibTex, you will find a new tab in your Zotero Preferences (see Figure 1), where you can define a template for your citation keys. Better BibTex gives you a nicer default pattern and the possibility to create your own template for easier-to-remember citation keys. 1 When, instead, you export your entries from Zotero without Better BibTex, the default keys tend to be long names in camelCase, such as montesCloudspotting2021. As it stands, you have to add them manually, before the comma in the first line of each entry. The entries above, however, have no citation key. Then, all the relevant information tied to the citation key montes_2021 would be used in the full reference. For example, in R Markdown I could write to cite my thesis, and it would be rendered as (Montes 2021) or however it should be based on the chosen citation style. R Markdown and \(\LaTeX\) can read BibTex files: you just enter the citation key and, when your text is compiled, your source is cited perfectly. If you have a file with BibTex entries, you can also import them to Zotero (or if you copy a BibTex entry, you can import it to Zotero from the clipboard!). In this case, I obtained it via the toBibtex() and citation() functions in R, but you can often find this format as an option for downloading a citation, or as an export option in Zotero. The word next to the symbol points to the type of element (e.g. ‘Manual’, ‘Book’), and the entry consists of key-value pairs with different kinds of bibliographical information. If you only use Zotero in combination with MS Word or Open Office, this might be irrelevant, but when you handle bib(la)tex files, e.g. for \(\LaTeX\) or R Markdown, it’s super important.Ī BibTex entry looks like these: = , It may have more functions than I’m aware of, but the main feature I’m interested in is in defining the citation key. First I will introduce Better BibTex and then how we combine it and Zotero with Obsidian via a community plugin.īetter BibTex helps you clean and manage your Zotero references. Here I will talk about how I’m integrating Zotero (and Better BibTex) with Obsidian and how that is reshaping my notes and organization. However, as we were preparing our presentation, Katharina Meissl introduced me to Obsidian and now -I want to move everything to Obsidian and just stay there. I’ve used Evernote for note-taking for the last 6 years and a half (so, most of my research career up to now) and Zotero for bibliography management for a bit longer. I got to talk about Git and Github, Zotero (with Giulia Mazzola) and Evernote. This is actually happening and it’s being so so useful! □ Great ECRs from the Linguistics department at prompted great discussions! Stay tuned for our blog/website! □ - Virginia Calabria October 22, 2021 On October 12 and 19 (2021) I participated in a few amazing sessions organized by some colleagues at the Linguistics Department, titled I was never taught how to do this.
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