If your document has been completely stripped of its metadata and exists only as plain text (e.g., "(Smith, 2023)"), you can use the RTF Scan feature. Save your document as an .rtf file. In the Zotero standalone app, go to Tools > RTF Scan. Select your document as the input file.
You wrote a paper using your personal library, but your co-authors use a shared group library. You need to relink all citations to the group version. how to relink citations in zotero
Zotero 6+ introduced a dedicated relinking tool for this exact purpose. If your document has been completely stripped of
If you use Zotero, you’ve likely encountered this heart-stopping moment: you open a document you haven’t touched in weeks, click "Refresh," and suddenly your formatted citations turn into generic text, or you get the dreaded error. Select your document as the input file
You cannot relink these citations. Zotero has no memory of them.
The single most powerful tool for relinking is the dialog introduced in Zotero 6. For 90% of users with broken links after moving computers or restoring a backup, this solves the problem in under a minute.