



SCRIVENER ZOTERO INTEGRATION HOW TO
You will use Zotero to put placeholders into your Scrivener document those placeholders will in turn tell Zotero (when it scans the exported ODF document) where and how to put the formatted citations in. This method requires only what you already have – Zotero and Scrivener. (Of course, that requires you NOT to make other changes in your compiled manuscript, unless you’re willing to go back and input them into the Scrivener project.) This workflow will export a footnoted manuscript that does not have dynamic, updateable citations, but the citations will refresh any time Scrivener compiles the manuscript, so a new compile after making changes in Zotero will contain the new information. The footnote will export in whatever default format you have selected within Zotero using the menu choices Edit–>Preferences–>Export. To do this, simply create a footnote pane in Scrivener (Format–>Footnote), and click-and-drag the bibliographic entry from your Zotero collection. You can drag and drop citations into Scrivener footnotes from Zotero, thus avoiding the typing or cut-and-pasting of citation info. Scrivener does not have a plugin like the ones available for LibreOffice and MS Word, nor is there ever likely to be one, so using the two programs together will always require some level of kludge. While there is no simple method to get Zotero to integrate with Scrivener, or vice versa, there are three methods that take advantage of at least some of Zotero’s functionality in Scrivener.
