

Researchers and teachers would happily pay for a real, robust MS Word app on Ipad with integrated citation manager support, review and collaboration mode, actual mouse support (allowing to select letters) etc. I can imagine how from MS perspective it makes sense to incentivize people to switch to a Surface product instead of helping develop the Apple ecosystem but this is a self-defeating strategy: millions of students, Reading threads on different forums, it seems MS and Apple are pointingįingers at each other for blocking this feature. If you're having trouble, see Manually Installing the Zotero Word Processor Plugin or Word Processor Plugin Troubleshooting. You can reinstall the plugins later from the Cite Word Processor Plugins pane of the Zotero preferences. Word on Windows and Mac OS, there is zero support for these plugins in the Ipad OS version of MS Word, which makes academic writing almost impossible (or extremely cumbersome) with an Ipad. The word processor plugins are bundled with Zotero and should be installed automatically for each supported word processor on your computer when you first start Zotero. While citation manager software such as Endnote, Mendeley, Zotero, Refworks all have such plugins and apps compatible with MS Writing - without having to exit MS Word - is one of the most basic and fundamental features necessary in higher ed and research. When writing academic papers (or student essays), having a built-in plugin to cite while Ps: if you read French, I have a great page to install and get started with Zotero.The lack of support for citation managers on the Ipad version of MS Word is a huge let-down for millions of students and scholars in higher education across the world. If i convinced you but you already have a library in another software, remeber that you can transfer it all to Zotero easily. However, since I still use pubmed despite this feature, Zotero won.

The only thing Endnote has: searching for paper straight from Endnote.

I installed it and learned it within 30min. It has ll the Endnote features (and more!) with a much user friendly interface. It has a word extension, a browser plugin (any page can become a reference added to your library -qnd it detects if it is a journal article or a webpage.), it is so clean and easy to use, it can sync easily across all devices (Endnote was problematic for me when switching from one computer to another), you can link pdf files to the references, it can manage duplicates. But I tried Zotero because Insaw it recommended on Reddit.
