Help:Adding Zotero citations

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Insite the visual editor view (accessed by following the "Edit" or "Create" link to a page), you will see the option to cite Zotero items in the menu at the top:

Zotero item insert menu option in the MediaWiki visual editor interface menu

The insert menu will ask for the 8-character item key. You can look this up in the web version of the library, although it is also possible to retrieve the key from the desktop client. Here are the web search results for “Nyein and Mathew”, for example:

Item search results and key from the Zotero web library.png

The Zotero item key (ID) is the part of the URL following the “items” part. So if the address bar shows this:

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2183860/dried_fish_matters/search/Nyein/titleCreatorYear/items/4SSP4CYN/item-list

the key is 4SSP4CYN.

This can be copied into the citation box as follows:

Zotero item key entry in wiki.png


And we get this:

Zotero item inserted in wiki text.png