Great news everyone!
ONLYOFFICE developers created two more helpful plugins, Mendeley and Zotero, which stand next to EasyBib in our collection of perfect tools for building high quality bibliographies for papers and books.
Mendeley and Zotero are free reference management services that allow searching and managing publication references and creating bibliographies.
The new plugins allow searching the references from the library and inserting them into your documents using over 7000 available citation styles. In a few clicks you get a beautiful wholesome bibliography which otherwise would take you hours to manually research and compose.
Mendeley plugin
Zotero plugin
Feature-wise both plugins offer similar functionality and the interface, which makes them equally comprehensive.
One core difference is that while Mendeley plugin is able to search sources in public libraries, Zotero works only with user’s personal library associated with the account. The desired sources must be added to your library in Zotero before you can search and add them to your bibliography via plugin.
Currently, Mendeley and Zotero plugins are available for on-premise versions of ONLYOFFICE. Soon, they will become available in other solutions too.
Both plugins need to be installed and configured manually in ONLYOFFICE Enterprise Edition, ONLYOFFICE Community Edition and ONLYOFFICE Integration Edition or ONLYOFFICE Document Server integrated with a third-party solution (e.g. Nextcloud or ownCloud). Visit Mendeley or Zotero plugin page on GitHub respectively to read about installation and configuration.
In both cases you will need to create an account within the service to connect your plugin to before you start working with it in ONLYOFFICE. You can access the log in/sign in page directly from both plugins.
To insert a bibliography in your document using Mendeley or Zotero:
- Find the needed plugin in the Plugins tab and run it.
- In the menu, search the desired source by author, title or year.
- Select the citation style in the drop-down list or type to search for it.
- Choose the language.
- Click Insert Bibliography.
If you wish to use your favorite service via plugin in ONLYOFFICE, you are welcome to submit your ideas to our team. Tweet us and we will give it a chance.
You can also create plugins yourself using our API instructions. Learn how to create plugins for ONLYOFFICE editors in our blog.
Got any questions? Drop us a line in the comments below.
I’m having trouble with the Mendeley plugin leaving off the authors. I’ve tried about 20 styles and the authors always get skipped. WWHHHYYYY!!!?????
Hi Andrea!
Thanks for the feedback. As in the author doesn’t appear in the reference posted in the document?
Please specify the solution you are using, its version and the particular reference where you have a problem. That would help us investigate.
Also I want to let you know that the plugin is still new, and you are very welcome to report issues or missing functionality so we can work on this. Thanks.
is the plugin available for the desktop editor? This should be extremely iseful
Hi Filippo!
Which plugin are you talking about?
We are working on adding both to Desktop Editors, but it will take some time. I can say that Zotero is more likely to come first.
Hi, I take it this is a plug-in that organisations offering a cloud server-based OnlyOffice set-up could implement, but it’s not for the desktop version. Will there be a plug-in also for the desktop app?
A cloud-based office solution with a Zotero plug-in has been a desideratum of the academic community for years, and it would be great if that had, at long last, been achieved!
Hi Gerhard!
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, we are planning to add Zotero plugin to Desktop Editors. It will take a little while, but we are working on it.
As for the cloud service – both plugins are already available in the online editors of ONLYOFFICE cloud service.
Thanks for these important plugins for the cloud service.
Unfortunately it is only possible to add bibliographies. But a basic function of Mendeley and zotero is the insertion of individual citations in the text.
There are a number of citation styles to choose from, but is it possible to upload any more than that? Nor can the style be changed for an existing bibliography.
It would be nice if the range of functions could be extended as soon as possible.
Hi Katrin, thanks a lot for your feedback. We are planning to introduce in-text quotes and the existing reference modification for sure, however, adding custom styles to the selection appears to be a tricky task. Stay tuned!
The plugin works great, thanks – but it only does the listing at the end (bibliography) and does not work in tandem with in-text references, connecting the two, as one is used to using in LibreOffice or Word. Will this feature be developed?
Hi Tel,
I confirm that the in-text references are planned. Thanks for your feedback and stay tuned!