2023/04/02/academic-writing-with-markdown-visual-studio-code-and-zotero/

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Academic writing with Markdown, Visual Studio Code and Zotero

https://blog.insileco.io/2023/04/02/academic-writing-with-markdown-visual-studio-code-and-zotero/

[colmoneill]

Hi, thanks for this post! I have been using Codium to write academic .md files for the last two year, betterBibTex and Pandoc for conversion. Your workflow is quite nice with the extensions, I'll have to try those next.

My question to you is: do you have a way of contextually citing referenced work? By this I mean that I often write sentences like as argued by Author X (year of reference) lorem ipsum doloret but when I cite in this way, the citation states (Author X, year) not just the year.

I don't know if I'm being very clear, I guess what I am looking for is a way of labelling the citation marks? So that I can manually mark out what needs to appear in the body of the text, but the correct reference still gets added to the references list at the end of the doc. Would you know a way of doing this?

Thanks and best regards,

Colm

[colmoneill]

For anybody that this might help later on: I have found the way to do this, and it was simply within the Pandoc documentation for citation syntax. https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#citation-syntax

I mostly use [@citationKey] to insert citations in a document, but simply adding - in front of the @ symbol outputs just the date of the reference. [-@citationKey]

More details:

In complex cases, you can force something to be treated as a locator by enclosing it in curly braces or prevent parsing the suffix as locator by prepending curly braces:

[@smith{ii, A, D-Z}, with a suffix]
[@smith, {pp. iv, vi-xi, (xv)-(xvii)} with suffix here]
[@smith{}, 99 years later]

A minus sign (-) before the @ will suppress mention of the author in the citation. This can be useful when the author is already mentioned in the text:

Smith says blah [-@smith04].

You can also write an author-in-text citation, by omitting the square brackets:

@smith04 says blah.
@smith04 [p. 33] says blah.

This will cause the author’s name to be rendered, followed by the bibliographical details. Use this form when you want to make the citation the subject of a sentence.

[KevCaz]

Hi @colmoneill sorry to answer soooo late (well and actually not even answering your question), for some reason I have missed this issue. Happy you've found your answer in the manual! Thanks for your post!

[jeffjohnsondicc]

This is a fantastic breakdown of why Zotero stands out as a reference manager! The emphasis on its open-source nature, community-driven development, and seamless functionality makes it a clear choice for academics.

The ability to retrieve metadata effortlessly and its compatibility with plugins like Better BibTeX are game-changers. Your insights truly highlight Zotero's value over alternatives like Mendeley. 🚀

Regards,
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