Innovator
..researcher and expert
Dan Forsberg
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Zotero with 3GPP and IETF specifications
What to do if you cannot use LaTeX and BibTeX to publish
your document and manage the references? .. And you want to
cite standards in a different way than e.g., books and
articles?
One possibility is a free, open source referencing system
Zotero (MS Word
Mac/Windows and Open Office). It supports bibtex import and
export etc. and comes as a Firefox extension and word
plugin. Whenever you find a reference from Internet you can
click the URL bar to add it as a reference to your library.
For a collaborative book project we wanted to refer to 3GPP
and IETF
specifications in a special way, e.g., [TS23.401] and
[RFC3344], and [draft-ietf-x-y-00]. However, Zotero did not
support this kind of mixture with normal book and article
references (e.g., (J. Smith, 2009), or [4]). Thus, I took some
existing tools (see links below) and modified them for
creating suitable .bib files from 3GPP and IETF
specifications. Then I modified Zotero Harward style file for
doing the magic. The same can be done for e.g., IEEE style
easily. I used these with Zotero 2.0 beta.
- Modified Zotero CSL style file based on Harward style. Here is some information about the CSL syntax as well (maybe outdated).
- I updated Miguel A. Garcia's TcL script that generates .bib from the 3GPP specifications file to better suit for Zotero import. The script is here. For convenience, here is also the generated 3gpp-zot.bib file.
- I took Roland Bless' xml based conversion template and modified it to suit my needs with Zotero. Here is the updated file and also he rfc-zot.bib file.
- The references are ordered in a way that TS/TRs, RFCs, and I-Ds are grouped together.
All the files with README.txt can be downloaded from
here.
The resulting style with references and bibliography can be
seen in this PDF file and
in the image below.
