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I can only think of one time where we had to use an obscure South African legal format and cited cases from the African human rights system that it really broke down and we ended up doing citations and Regarding sync: I found out what was going wrong. But in my experience with "vanilla" Zotero (not even Juris-M) and for my uses, Zotero gets me 90% of the way there and the minor issues I fix manually (I also work a lot with Chicago, which requires legal sources in footnotes independently of the references cited list, which makes things a bit easier).
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That said, legal referencing is notoriously complex (hence the Juris-M fork) and I do not know if any software out there handles it flawlessly. But I am guessing that Juris-M would be superior still). (I think Paperpile, which also uses CSL, has a few more reference types baked into their interface so assuming that you use the right CSL style, it can produce proper citations equivalent to the use of Zotero's extra field.
So from a legal writing point of view, and disregarding the various issues re: data, privacy, corporate behavior, etc (which all would tilt in favor of Zotero, I'd say), Mendeley is at best equal to Zotero and in actuality probably a bit worse. I don't think Mendeley has anything like that. One other thing: since Mendeley and Zotero use the same underlying citation mechanism (CSL), their support for legal research out of the box should be about the same, but with the important caveat that Zotero pulls in stuff from the extra field, as mentioned above (thanks for the reminder about this!). I do mostly cite international law (treaties and cases) and UN/AU/ECOWAS documents of various sorts. It's just my own stuff for my master thesis and possible Also, regarding Juris-M, it could be interesting but since I'll mostly work with Dutch law i'm not sure if it is truly more useful than zotero, I am guessing you mostly use international I have not used Juris-M much, but I think it supports most European jurisdictions pretty well. (PS: I'm not interested in possible perks they have regarding collab or sharing.
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How good is Zotero in searching the pdf content? I've heard Mendeley is pretty good at indexing the content within the PDF and I can easily search for the content. I tried to go through the documentation but it only made matters more confusing? In Mendeley it automatically becomes a citation with a pdf (even though most of the citations are wrong since theyre not files with identifiers sometimes)Ģ. But then the pdf opened in my chrome browser (instead of Foxit) AND there was no highlighting! What's going on here?Īlso I noticed it does not save it as a reference when dragging + dropping the pdf but rather as a 'file', if that makes sense. So I highlighted the Z-pdf, I closed Zotero Desktop and I went to Zotero's online version to take a look. When I drag+dropped a pdf into Zotero Desktop and I tried opening the pdf, it opened the pdf with my own Foxit pdf software (as expected?). When I drag+dropped a pdf in Mendeley Desktop and highlighted it, I could open the M-pdf via M's cloud and it included the highlight.ġ.b. I played around with both Mendeley and Zotero. Now there are still some considerations I hope you guys can I help me with. As far as I know, only Bookends (Mac only), Citavi (Windows only), and EndNote (nominally cross-platform but basically unusable on Mac) allow you to customize reference types.īut if you can make Zotero work for you w/o that, it is probably the more seamless solution (and you have the benefit of your money not going to some large corporation, unlike Mendeley). Personally, I tend to cite international law or specific African jurisdictions, so I do not really know about European/Civil law.įor the more rarefied situations, I use Bookends because it allows you to customize reference types (so I have a specific reference type for treaties, one for UN docs, one each for various West African jurisdictions, and so on).
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The Geneva Graduate Institute also has a pretty helpful guide for how to make Zotero work for international law, which might be helpful. Re: the legal stuff, I'd recommend you look at Juris-m to see if that works. I haven't done this in a while but last I did it worked quite well. Dropbox) for purposes of reading on an iPad. Zotfile is helpful if you want to move PDFs between Zotero and an external folder (e.g.
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