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catena: Zotero References Inside Word Documents

Spitale G. (2026) borant.eu [software]

Abstract

Ties a Zotero collection to a manuscript, so references arrive in the document as real Zotero fields rather than typed by hand — and, when a reference comes from a verification, the verbatim passage that justifies it travels with it. Identifiers resolve through Zotero’s own translators, never from memory, and a bulk ingest is planned first and confirmed once. It edits references and never prose: a tool with its hands in the bibliography and in the text would have to be trusted twice.

Who it is for: Anyone who has retyped the same DOI into the same manuscript more than once.

Source code: https://github.com/that-ugly-cat/catena

Cite

Spitale, G. (2026). catena: Zotero References Inside Word Documents. borant.eu.
@misc{spitale2026catena,
  author  = {Spitale, G.},
  title   = {{catena: Zotero References Inside Word Documents}},
  publisher = {borant.eu},
  year    = {2026}
}

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2026

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