{"id":389,"date":"2008-03-31T08:52:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T12:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2008-03-31T08:52:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T12:52:37","slug":"instant-bibliographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Instant bibliographies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate bibliographies, and I suspect that any tool I bought to handle them would consume immense quantities of otherwise <del>productive<\/del> slightly less unproductive time. On the other hand, I need to have reliable references and footnotes from time to time and I think I have discovered a free and fairly reliable way to get them into Openoffice that requires no more than half a dozen mouse clicks from the moment I find a quote in the book I am reading. It will, of course, work with Word, too.<\/p>\n\n<p>I get the bibliographic details of whatever I am quoting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\">Librarything<\/a>: this requires at most half a dozen passes with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/cuecat\">the cuecat scanner<\/a> and often only one. From Librarything, they are dumped into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\">Zotero firefox extension<\/a>. That&#8217;s one mouse click. Zotero has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/documentation\/plugins\">plugin toolbars for both word and openoffice<\/a>, so when I need to source a quote, I add one more mouseclick in OOo, and then type in the page number. Instant footnote.<\/p>\n\n<p>I think it will also produce a bibliography at the end, but I haven&#8217;t tested that yet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate bibliographies, and I suspect that any tool I bought to handle them would consume immense quantities of otherwise productive slightly less unproductive time. On the other hand, I need to have reliable references and footnotes from time to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}