Archive for May 7th, 2007

Exporting from Zotero to RefWorks

FINALLY I got it to work. Since Zotero’s been CRASHING on my ass, I decided to export my ridiculous bibliography over to Refworks, which is web-based and clumsy, but at least it doesn’t crash Word.

  1. So export your stuff from Zotero as BibTeX format (I tried lots of formats and this method works best).
  2. Open the resulting file in some text editor that allows for Regular Expression search and replace.
  3. Then run this query:
  4. Search for: \n},
    Replace with: \n} (no comma)

  5. Then save, and import the file into RefWorks as a Bibtex file with the default options (I selected UTF-8 for good measure)

While i’m on this topic I might as well continue my delirium and show the regex for converting from Ottobib BibTeX (Who knew there were so many kinds!?) to Zotero-importable BibTeX.
Search for: '(.*)'
Replace with: {$1}
Yay.




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