How to insert citations to .qmd and .bib file from Zotero in source mode?

[mvuorre]

Description

It is easy to insert citations from Zotero to the current Quarto document & the associated .bib file in visual editing mode.

What are the current best practices for inserting citations to both the Quarto file and the associated .bib file in source mode?

My understanding is that this might require a VS Code extension. When I search for extensions in Positron, the only result is https://github.com/mblode/vscode-zotero. However that only inserts the citation into the Quarto file.

I had a quick look at results in VS Code (there are more) but they also seem to only write the citation into the Quarto file, and thus require manually dealing with the .bib file.

I forked the "VS Code Citation Picker for Zotero" extension to add this functionality (and use VS Code native picker UI, which is faster) here: https://github.com/mvuorre/vscode-zotero/releases/tag/v0.2.0. (Here is a short blog post explaining it. It seems the original repo is not maintained so updates unlikely there.) But I'd hate to be reinventing the wheel.

Is anyone aware of (better) alternatives? If not I might go through the hassle of figuring out how to make this available in the Positron extension search dialog (any tips on how to do that?), since it currently requires manually installing the .vsix file.

[mcanouil]

There were several discussions in the past about this (not linking them all).

From past discussion, if I recall properly JJ's answer, this is supposed to work in source mode but as far as I know it does not and there is no command in the commands palette to insert citation.

I suggest opening an issue on the Quarto extension / Visual Editor side: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto/issues

[mvuorre]

Thanks, opened an issue here: quarto-dev/quarto#747.

[mcanouil]

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FYI, GitHub has a nice feature to link any issues/pr/discussion. This way you don't have to bother finding a meaningful text.

- https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto/issues/747
- quarto-dev/quarto#747
- #747 (internal to the repository so here it would target a quarto-CLI thing)

• Zotero citations to Quarto file & .bib file in source mode (VS Code / Positron) quarto#747
• Zotero citations to Quarto file & .bib file in source mode (VS Code / Positron) quarto#747