Connotea: basic integration with Word

Word 2007 has some built-in support for bibliographies and citations. It's pretty basic and has some, um, issues, but by using it you can get your Connotea bookmarks into Word fairly quickly.

Here's how:

1. Enter your Connotea username in the form at the bottom of this post, press 'get bookmarks' and wait for a couple of minutes while a script fetches your bookmarks via the API (if you have lots of bookmarks then this could take some time)


2. Save the resulting file (as .XML - "sources.xml" would be a good name).


3. Open up Word 2007


4. Click on the References tab. In the "Citations and Bibliography" panel click on "Manage Sources"


5. Click the Browse button and select the XML file you saved in step 2.


6. Any bookmarks in your Connotea library that had citation information attached to them should appear in the 'Sources Available' listbox. Select those appropriate to the document that you're writing and copy them across to 'Current List'.


7. You can now use the 'insert citation' and 'bibliography' buttons to insert citations and generate formatted bibliographies, respectively.
   

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