Alfred workflow for rapidly searching your Zotero database and copying citations.
- Perform full-text search across your Zotero database, including only searching specific fields
- Copy citations using any CSL style you have installed in Zotero
- Copy citations either in citation/note style or bibliography style
- Copy citations in any locale supported by CSL
- Citations are copied in multiple formats, so the right data are automatically pasted into the application you're using
Download the ZotHero-XYZ.alfredworkflow file from GitHub releases, and double-click the downloaded file to install.
These are the workflow's default keywords in Alfred:
zot <query>— Search your Zotero database (all fields).↩— Open the entry in Zotero.⌘↩— Copy citation to the pasteboard (see Configuration).⌥↩— Copy bibliography-style citation to the pasteboard (see Configuration).⇧↩— View entry attachments (if present).↩— Open an attachment in the default application.
^↩— View all citation styles.↩or⌘↩— Copy citation in selected style.⌥↩— Copy bibliography-style citation in selected style.^↩— Set style as default.
zot:[<query>]— Search a specific field.↩— Select a field to search against.
zotconf [<query>]— View and edit workflow configuration.An Update is Available/Workflow is Up To Date— Whether a newer version of the workflow is available.Default Style: …— Choose a citation style for the⌘↩and⌥↩hotkeys (on search results).Locale: …— Choose a locale for the formatting of citations. If unset, the default for the style is used, or if none is set, US English.Reload Zotero Cache— Clear the workflow's cache of Zotero data. Useful if the workflow gets out of sync with Zotero.Open Log File— Open the workflows log file in the default app (usually Console.app). Useful for checking on indexing problems (the indexer output isn't visible in Alfred's debugger).View Documentation— Open this README in your browser.Report an Issue— Open the GitHub issue tracker in your browser.
When you copy a citation, ZotHero puts both HTML and rich text (RTF) representations on the pasteboard. That way, when you paste a citation into an application like Word, the formatted text will be pasted, but when you paste into a text/Markdown document, the HTML will be pasted.
The workflow partly manages its own configuration with the keyword zotconf, but you may need to use the workflow configuration sheet if you don't use Zotero 5's default data directory.
The workflow uses your Zotero database and styles, therefore it needs to know where to find them. By default, the workflow looks in ~/Zotero (the default location for Zotero 5).
If you data are stored somewhere else, you need to set ZOTERO_DIR in the workflow configuration sheet.
If you have set a "Linked Attachment Base Directory" in Zotero, enter its path for ATTACHMENTS_DIR in the configuration sheet.
Note: You can use the UNIX shortcut ~ to represent your home directory, e.g. ~/Zotero for Zotero 5's default directory.
The workflow uses the CSL styles you have installed in Zotero, so to add a new style, simply add it in Zotero. The workflow will pick up the new style(s) on the next run.
You can copy either a citation-/note-style citation or a bibliography-style one by hitting ⌘↩ or ⌥↩ respectively on a search result or citation style.
For ⌘↩ and ⌥↩ to work on search results, you must first choose a default style. You can either do this in the configuration screen (keyword zotconf), or hitting ^↩ on a search result to show all citation styles, then ^↩ on a style to set that as the default.
CSL and ZotHero support the following locales. The default behaviour is to use the locale specified in the style if there is one, and en-US (American English) if not. Setting a locale overrides the style's own locale.
Use the zotconf keyword to force a specific locale.
| Locale | Code |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | af-ZA |
| Bahasa Indonesia / Indonesian | id-ID |
| Català / Catalan | ca-AD |
| Cymraeg / Welsh | cy-GB |
| Dansk / Danish | da-DK |
| Deutsch (Deutschland) / German (Germany) | de-DE |
| Deutsch (Schweiz) / German (Switzerland) | de-CH |
| Deutsch (Österreich) / German (Austria) | de-AT |
| Eesti / Estonian | et-EE |
| English (UK) | en-GB |
| English (US) | en-US |
| Español (Chile) / Spanish (Chile) | es-CL |
| Español (España) / Spanish (Spain) | es-ES |
| Español (México) / Spanish (Mexico) | es-MX |
| Euskara / Basque | eu |
| Français (Canada) / French (Canada) | fr-CA |
| Français (France) / French (France) | fr-FR |
| Hrvatski / Croatian | hr-HR |
| Italiano / Italian | it-IT |
| Latviešu / Latvian | lv-LV |
| Lietuvių / Lithuanian | lt-LT |
| Magyar / Hungarian | hu-HU |
| Nederlands / Dutch | nl-NL |
| Norsk bokmål / Norwegian (Bokmål) | nb-NO |
| Norsk nynorsk / Norwegian (Nynorsk) | nn-NO |
| Polski / Polish | pl-PL |
| Português (Brasil) / Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-BR |
| Português (Portugal) / Portuguese (Portugal) | pt-PT |
| Română / Romanian | ro-RO |
| Slovenčina / Slovak | sk-SK |
| Slovenščina / Slovenian | sl-SI |
| Suomi / Finnish | fi-FI |
| Svenska / Swedish | sv-SE |
| Tiếng Việt / Vietnamese | vi-VN |
| Türkçe / Turkish | tr-TR |
| Íslenska / Icelandic | is-IS |
| Čeština / Czech | cs-CZ |
| Ελληνικά / Greek | el-GR |
| Български / Bulgarian | bg-BG |
| Монгол / Mongolian | mn-MN |
| Русский / Russian | ru-RU |
| Српски / Srpski / Serbian | sr-RS |
| Українська / Ukrainian | uk-UA |
| עברית / Hebrew | he-IL |
| العربية / Arabic | ar |
| فارسی / Persian | fa-IR |
| ไทย / Thai | th-TH |
| ភាសាខ្មែរ / Khmer | km-KH |
| 中文 (中国大陆) / Chinese (PRC) | zh-CN |
| 中文 (台灣) / Chinese (Taiwan) | zh-TW |
| 日本語 / Japanese | ja-JP |
| 한국어 / Korean | ko-KR |
Theses are all settings available in the workflow configuration sheet.
You probably shouldn't edit the CITE_STYLE or LOCALE variables yourself, as there's no guarantee the value you set is actually available. Adjust them using the zotconf keyword.
Note: Due to the way Alfred works (as of v3.5.1), it can take a few seconds for Alfred to notice that you've changed settings via the workflow itself (as opposed to directly editing them in the configuration sheet).
| Variable | Meaning |
|---|---|
ATTACHMENTS_DIR |
Path to your Zotero attachments. |
CITE_STYLE |
Citation style copied by ⌘↩ and ⌥↩ |
LOCALE |
Locale for citations. Default: en-US (US English). |
ZOTERO_DIR |
Path to your Zotero data. |
Theses are all settings available in the workflow configuration sheet.
You probably shouldn't edit the CITE_STYLE or LOCALE variables yourself, as there's no guarantee the value you set is actually available. Adjust them using the zotconf keyword.
| Variable | Meaning |
|---|---|
ATTACHMENTS_DIR |
Path to your Zotero attachments. |
CITE_STYLE |
Citation style copied by ⌘↩ and ⌥↩ |
LOCALE |
Locale for citations. Default: en-US (US English). |
ZOTERO_DIR |
Path to your Zotero data. |
This workflow is released under the MIT licence.
It is heavily based on Alfred-Workflow (also MIT) for the workflow stuff, and citeproc-js (AGPL) for generating the citations.
The Zorro icon was created by Dan Lowenstein from the Noun Project.