For the past couple of weeks, I've been switching over to Zotero for my PhD thesis. With over 300 references and 1,000+ citations this hasn't been a quick task. Anyway, on Thursday I finally pressed ALT+3 (the key I've set up to insert the bibliography) and was rewarded with a VB run-time error '6' (Overflow).
It seems that there is was a bug in the Zotero.dot code. Anyway, a day later there was a fix. Thank's to "Mat Hickman" for posting the fix. It was a matter of changing two variables for INTs to LONGs.
So, I've now generated my bibliography.
The next step is to check my work. I've produced to text files from my current (Zotero-ised) version and my Endnote version. There is a really nice tool, called WinMerge that does a spiffing job of visually showing the differences between the two text files.
Sometime later this even, I should have a 'correct' version of my thesis with all the citations correct from Zotero. Then I can get back to writing ....
Two little features, that I haven't checked on the Zotero forums are:
- If a bibliography has been inserted in a document, then adding/amending citations takes a long time as the bibliography is recreated, and
- Editing an existing citation, with multiple authors, doesn't correctly sort the authors (and there seems to be now way to manually move them).
Nevertheless, I'm really happy to be using Zotero.
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