Zotpress

Creator’s site: Zotero reference management website and Zotpress plugin

How to use Zotpress:

You will need:

• A Zotero account (either for an individual user or a group)
• References in that Zotero account that you want to display in an organized fashion in WordPress
• The Zotpress plugin (on PIE, it’s available by request only — submit a ticket to ask for Zotpress on your own PIE site)
• If you’re using a custom domain like yoursite.illinois.edu rather than a Publish domain like publish.illinois.edu/yoursite, mention your custom domain in your ticket in order to update the domain Zotpress will expect to interact with.

Initial setup:

1. Zotpress will check connections and guide you through entering your account API key and a private key.
2. If you install as an individual user who is also a member of a group, you can choose whether you want to provide read-only or read-write access to any groups you are a member of.
3. In the Options section, you can choose a default bibliography format such as APA, MLA, Chicago, and more.
   

Generating references:

1. Choose what information you’d like to display in what methods: Standalone Information, In-Line References, and/or Library.
2. (In Classic mode) Use the Zotpress Reference widget at the top right of your editor window to generate a shortcode for the content you want to display.
   (In Block mode) Use the Zotpress Reference widget in the Page or Post sidebar of your block editor window. The interface is the same and the shortcodes will be the same.
   For a selected bibliography example:
   1. Search for a term or an author (in this case, wombats)
   2. Select the items you want to include
   3. Configure any display options desired in the Options area
   4. Generate a shortcode
   5. Use the shortcode in a page or post (as below).

Examples:

A Select Bibliography of Wombats

A shortcode in square brackets, formatted in the manner of:

zotpress items="{accountID:itemID},{accountID:nextitem}" style="apa"

produces:

Talking More About Wombats

Inline citations can be used inside paragraphs of text as follows. Within your paragraph, a shortcode in square brackets, formatted in the manner of:

zotpressInText item="{accountID:itemID,pagerange}"

followed by the bibliography placement in the format of

zotpressInTextBib

will display as follows:

(Your parargraph) Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua . Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

(Required bibliography after the citation)

The Great Library of Wombats

You can list everything in a selected library. A shortcode in square brackets formatted in the manner of:

zotpressLib userid="youraccountnumberhere"

will display as follows:

More Examples and Help

If you need additional help, find the Zotpress item in the left-hand navigation bar of your site dashboard, choose Help, and choose the Help tab for the type of content you would like to display.