Zotero can help you to take manually one by one citation and bibliography entry, beside it can also help you to do those automatically. This manual approach is suitable if you need to insert citation manually into another text editor (outside of LibreOffice Writer scopes) such as LibreOffice Impress or any other plain text editor. This article consists of two main parts, inserting citation and inserting bibliography. This article assumes you have installed Zotero or its Stand Alone version.

This article shows how to edit reference data (e.g. URL, title, date, etc.) for PDF document with Zotero, so you can import the citation into LibreOffice and create bibliography from it. This article consists of two main parts, editing reference and inserting reference into LibreOffice document. This article assumes you have installed Zotero in Firefox or its Stand Alone version.

Libreoffice has ability to create APA Style bibliography even any other style. In previous Libreoffice article, we explained about basic bibliography creation. Now, we introduce how to make APA style with Libreoffice. Don't worry, it is automatic. The only requirement is you should know APA Style format. We take only the book format for example here.

LibreOffice still has too few unofficial tutorials. Especially in bibliography related topics. So I write this basic guide. I will show you how to make a simple bibliography in LibreOffice Writer. What you will create? See picture below.

 

My LibreOffice Writer 3.5.7 crashes every I click menu Tools > Bibliography Database. So I can not open it. After searching, I find that default LibreOffice in Ubuntu 12.04 (which I am currently using) was missing LibreOffice Base. Bibliography Database needs LibreOffice Base so it crashes on my Ubuntu. Do you experience same crashes in your Ubuntu? Then just install Libreoffice Base. Below you can choose installing whether by using Terminal or GUI.

Result

Bibliography Database Works