plugins [Zotero Documentation]

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Plugins for Zotero

An active community of Zotero users has developed a variety of plugins to provide
enhancements, new features, and interfaces with other programs.

To install a plugin in Zotero, download its .xpi file to your computer. Then, in Zotero, click
“Tools → Add-Ons”, then drag the .xpi for the plugin onto the Add-Ons window that opens.

Note: for apps and plugins for mobile devices, see mobile.

New Features and Enhancements

Attachment File Management

ZotFile, by Joscha Legewie.
Zotero plugin to automatically rename, move, and attach PDFs (or other files) to
Zotero items.

Zotero Storage Scanner, by Emiliano Heyns.

Scan your Zotero storage folder for missing attachments and possible duplicates

OPDS Server, by Emiliano Heyns.

Download your attachments into your e-reader using OPDS

Not yet compatible with Zotero 5.0

Item Metadata Import

Barcode scanner for iOS, by Zotero
Add physical books to Zotero by scanning their barcodes with your iPhone or
iPad

Google Scholar Citations for Zotero, by Anton Beloglazov.

Add Google Scholar citation counts to items in your Zotero library.

Zotero DOI Manager, by Brenton M. Wiernik.

Look up DOI names from CrossRef automatically.

Automatically retrieve shortDOI names from http://shortdoi.org and replace

them in the Zotero DOI field.
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 Check DOI validity and mark items with invalid DOIs.

Clean the DOI field (e.g., to remove http://doi.org/).

Date Grabber, by Emiliano Heyns.

Tries to set the date from the Last Modified header from the URL if the date is
not set

Zotero Reports

Interface Improvements
Zutilo, by Will Shanks
Adds additional editing functions and exposes Zotero functions for keyboard
shortcuts.

Zotero QuickLook, by Mikko Rönkkö.

Zotero plugin adding QuickLook functionality to Zotero.

FireTray, by Francesco Foudil.

Adds minimize to system tray functionality for Linux and Windows.

Auto Index, by Emiliano Heyns.

A Zotero extension which keeps the full-text index updated. Beta release. If you
have ZotFile installed, Auto-index will also kick off auto-extraction of notes.
Not yet compatible with Zotero 5.0

Library Analysis/Visualization
Zotero Voyant Export, by Cora Johnson-Roberson
Visualize your Zotero collections using Voyant.

ZotNet, by Christy Byrd.

Allows you to create network maps of Zotero items using the Related feature.

Website Integration

WordPress
Zotpress, by Katie Seaborn.
WordPress plugin to show Zotero citations on WordPress (with an optional
thumbnail image).

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 COinS Metadata Exposer, by Zotero.
WordPress plugin to embed a COinS tag in each blog post, making metadata
visible to Zotero (post title, author, date, blog title, categories, and URL).

ScholarPress Coins, by CHNM.

WordPress plugin to embed a COinS tag in each blog post, making metadata
visible to Zotero (post title, author, date, blog title, categories, and URL).

COinS WordPress Plugin, by Peter Binkley.

WordPress plugin to embed a COinS tag to something other than the blog post
itself (such as a journal article or book). The COinS entries can be made in the
post editor.

Open Book, by John Miedema.

WordPress Plugin to display a book's cover image, title, author, publisher and
other metadata from Open Library.

WordPress unAPI Server, by Mike Giarlo and Peter Binkley.

WordPress Plugin to exposes blog metadata via unAPI.

SPIP
ZotSpip, by Joseph Larmarange.
SPIP plugin to synchronise a Zotero library with SPIP (a content management
system). References can be presented in web pages and searched through a
dedicated webpage. A complementary plugin (BiblioCheck) allows a research
unit to manage corrections to apply to the unit bibliography. (PHP)

Drupal
Biblio Zotero.
Drupal module that provides one-way syncing from Zotero to Drupal's biblio
module.

Omeka
ZoteroImport.
Omeka plugin to import items from Zotero into an Omeka repository.

BibBase
BibBase Zotero Integration.
Show any Zotero library, collection, or group on any web site, e.g., your own

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General
Zot_Bib_Web, by David Reitter.
Generates interactive web bibliographies based on one or more collections in a
Zotero repository. The content generated is static. The program is meant to be
run regularly.

Zotsite, by Paul Landes.

Exports a local Zotero library to an HTML website.

View collections, item metadata, notes, and attachment files in convenient

layout.

Syncing to the Zotero.org servers is not required.

Word Processor and Writing Integration

Word and LibreOffice

Zotero word processor plugins, by Zotero.
Cite items from your Zotero library in Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and Google
Docs.

Reference Extractor, by Rintze Zelle.

Extract embedded Zotero and Mendeley references from Word .docx files for
import into Zotero.

LaTeX, TeX, and Plain Text Editors

Better Bib(La)TeX, by Emiliano Heyns.
Make Zotero useful for us LaTeX holdouts:

LyZ, by Will Shanks.

Zotero plugin for integration with the LyX TeX editor.

Zot2Bib, by George MacKerron.

Zotero plugin for integration with the BibDesk bibliographic manager for Mac OS
X.

LaTeXing: Latex package for Sublime Text with Zotero support, by Chris.
Cite items from your Zotero library in Sublime Text.

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 zotxt, by Erik Hetzner.
Cite items from your Zotero library while writing in plain text.

Additional packages:

Atom Zotero integration, by Emiliano Heyns.

Cite items from your Zotero library in Atom Editor.

Relies on the BetterBibTeX plugin.

Brackets Zotero integration, by Wasif Hasan Baig.

Cite items from your Zotero library in Adobe Brackets.

Relies on the BetterBibTeX plugin.

Statistical Software
citr, by Frederik Aust.
Integrates R/RStudio with Zotero.

Relies on the BetterBibTeX plugin

rbbt, by Dewey Dunnington.

Integrates R/RStudio with Zotero.

Relies on the BetterBibTeX plugin

cite2c, by Thomas Kluyver.

Integrates Python/Jupyter Notebook with Zotero.

CSL Style Development

Citeproc Test Runner, by Frank Bennett.
A powerful and convenient tool for on-the-fly automatic testing and validation of
CSL styles with any editor.

Requires a few tools on the target system (node.js, mocha, and java), but
otherwise installs with a single command.

Other Programs
RTF/ODF-Scan for Zotero, by Frank Bennett, Sebastian Karcher.
Enables active citations in any word processor capable of saving/exporting to
.odt (e.g., Scrivener, Google Docs)

Step 1: Insert citations in your wordprocessor of choice;

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 Step 2: Export document to LibreOffice;

Step 3: convert markers to live Zotero citations.

Zotero to InDesign export, by Kai

Basic implementation of a Zotero to Indesign export, allowing for LaTeX style
citations of Zotero items in Adobe's InDesign

Zotexmacs, by Slowphil
Cite items from your Zotero library in GNU TeXmacs, a feature-rich WYSIWYG
scientific word processor with high quality typesetting.
Takes advantage of the BetterBibTeX plugin if installed, but also works without it.

General Writing Tools

Propachi, by Frank Bennett, Brenton Wiernik.
Uppercase Subtitles: Entering titles in “sentence case” is strongly
recommended. The first character of a subtitle (following a colon) should be set
in lowercase, unless it is a proper noun or acronym. Styles will convert titles to
“title case” as necessary. Some citation styles (e.g., APA) require that the first
word of subtitles also be uppercase. This plugin can enable such formatting.

This plugin also patches Zotero's citation processor to the latest version. This
plugin is not necessary for most users.

Zotero Development
Hello World, by Zotero.
Sample Zotero plugin.

Scaffold, by Zotero, Avram Lyon, and Rintze Zelle.

Zotero plugin for translator development.

Desktop and Other Program Integration

ZotHero, by Dean Jackson.
An Alfred workflow for Mac.
Search your library, copy formatted references into any program, and open
attachments, all without using a mouse.

Compatible with Zotero 5.0 and Alfred 3.

Zotero Metadata Import for Calibre, by DaltonST.

A plugin for the Calibre ebook manager.
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 Import Zotero file attachments with metadata into Calibre.

Export Calibre files and metadata to Zotero.

Qnotero, by Sebastiaan Mathôt.

Access your Zotero library from your desktop.

Not yet compatible with Zotero 5.0

TheBrain export, by Emiliano Heyns.

Not technically a plugin (it's a translator) but will export your Zotero items in a
format that TheBrain can import.

Unmaintained
Several Zotero plugins are known to have been abandoned and are incompatible with
current versions of Zotero, had their features incorporated into Zotero or other tools
natively, or otherwise be unsuitable for general use.

These unmaintained plugins are listed here.

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