Using WordPress for an academic journal; need something for citations

  • Hello. I run an academic journal on WordPress and currently, authors and editors manually manage the in-text citations and reference lists for each article. I’d really like to move away from this and I’m wondering if Zotpress could be used in some way.

    However, reading the forums and help file makes me think that Zotpress is really designed for a single user/groups within that user’s account, rather than for a journal where every article will have a unique set of references, none of which may be in my personal library.

    Am I right in thinking that Zotpress probably can’t be used in my situation?

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  • Mark

    (@codeispoetry)

    At risk you’re not seeing this very late answer: It can be used for this kind of purpose, even with your personal library, but I would set up a group library. If you have a group library for the journal, with a master inventory of cited works, grouped into collection per article in which they are cited, then you could use ZotPress shortcodes to display the respective collections on each individual article page.

    Thread Starter Michael

    (@michealrowe1)

    Thanks for the response, Mark. Based on your suggestion, do you think the following might work?

    The journal has a Zotero account (separate from my personal account) which contains the “master library”. Every time someone submits an article I could also them to submit a .bib file with their citations, which I can keep as a separate collection within the library.

    Mark

    (@codeispoetry)

    Yes I think that would work. It’s easy to then prompt ZotPress to display that collection on a particular post or page related to the article.

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