This is an added step, but it comes with the added benefit of creating a file that can be saved for future reference.
#HOW TO INSERT A CITATION FROM WESTLAW INTO WORD PDF#
Download PDF and let Zotero extract citation information from fileĪnother option is to save the document as a PDF, which will usually include metadata Zotero can read. The second is that Zotero will save the document as a web page, and will style the citation as a web page unless you manually change it to the correct document type. First is that it is not easy to check to see if the documents are being saved correctly, since the title of the document won’t appear. This can be useful if you want to save several documents during a research session and then go back to fill the rest of the information later, but there are two caveats. The other option is to use the browser plugin to create a record, which will only include the URL to the page you’re on, and fill out the rest of the citation information. One is to keep the desktop version of Zotero open while conducting research and create a new record from scratch whenever you come across a document (such as an opinion, court document, or journal article) that you wish to save. The first option is to add citation information to Zotero manually (see the next section).
The notable exception is that Zotero cannot extract document information directly from Westlaw, Lexis, or Bloomberg Law, though it can save documents in those databases as websites.īecause legal scholars and practitioners often do much of their research in proprietary legal databases like Westlaw, Lexis Advance, or Bloomberg Law, it is important to many to find workarounds to use these tools with Zotero. Zotero can sometimes extract metadata from PDFs or Word documents posted on the web, though this depends on the document having the metadata included in the first place. Zotero’s citation extraction tool works with most databases legal scholars use, including MNCat, HeinOnline, LegalTrac, Google Scholar, SSRN, JSTOR, most other academic databases, Amazon, as well as online articles like news stories or blogs. Clicking the link will save the source to Zotero, including citation information, as well as PDF downloads and screenshots if available. The plugin appears as an icon at the top of the browser that looks like a Z in a new tab, and then takes the form of the detected document type once you navigate to a source, so it will look like a book when on a catalog record or Amazon book page, and an article when looking at a journal article. Zotero’s browser plugin, called Zotero Connector, is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
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