I tried to use Zotero so many times... and then I just tried a few other options, and in the end I realised that Zotero is the standard for academic writing... and I just could never got into it... in the end I used a text file, a literal text file and I am quite proud of my academic writing, I don't wish to do it again, but in the end, what worked for me was a literal piece of crap txt file.
juujian 4 hours ago||
Zotero obviously stores data in an SQL db. It's not quite a text file, but it's been around forever, and it's easy to parse directly, too.
david_draco 6 hours ago||
JabRef before version 3 was pretty compact and snappy. It's essentially editing a text file for taking notes, except you can search through, download arxiv and journal articles (with LocalCopy extension), launch the associated PDFs.
SubiculumCode 7 hours ago||
This sells Zotero short in so many ways, but you do you, I guess. Have fun hand formatting between the dozen citation/reference formats every other journal chooses, seemingly at random
maleldil 7 hours ago||
Why would you need that? 99% of the time, you'll just grab the BibTeX from where you're getting the paper (Google Scholar, arXiv, ResearchGate, etc.) and paste it on the .bib file. LaTeX will take care of formatting it when you \cite.
SubiculumCode 4 hours ago||
I was wrong. I was not aware that biblatex had these features so easily available. Learned something.
freehorse 7 hours ago||
Isn't citation format handled entirely in the latex document itself?
universa1 6 hours ago||
Mostly yes, you still need to check capitalisation of special words... But this should be independent of the actual citation style.