Zotero: Add a New Citation Style Brackets with Circumflex

I write using Zotero for my footnotes and creating a bibliography.

Because Webflow CMS has no footnote functionality I created one myself as described in this documentation “Footnotes in Webflow CMS”

Now I want to just copy and paste my text into the 2 Webflow CMS rich-text-fields “Article” and “Addendum” and let the script do its magic.

I want write my text and my citation look like this [^n] where n is a number iterating from 1 to n and my footnotes to

Because the script works, that it pics up a bracket with a circumflex and creates two internal links that point to each other if they both have the same value i.e. a [^1] as citation in the article section points to a [^1] footnote in the addendum section and vice versa.

To do that we have to create (because I cannot find) a citation style and a bibliography style in Zotero that looks just like that.

The citation styles “Nature” and “Vancouver” have numeric brackets and don’t sort your bibliography alphabetically.

Choose a CLS

You can choose your CSL here in this Zotero Style Repository:

https://www.zotero.org/styles

https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=vancouver&format=numeric

Download it

If you have the “Zotero Connector” nstalled in your browser click “Cancel” when the pup-up prompts you with “Add citation style to Zotero?”

Open the file in VSCode (or similar)

https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

and edit your citation styles.

I just added the circumflex (◌̂) “accent circonflexe” for the

1. prefix citation
2. prefix bibliography

both times from

prefix="[" suffix="]"

to

prefix="[^" suffix="]"

just like so

<citation collapse="citation-number">
<sort>
<key variable="citation-number"/>
</sort>
<layout prefix="[^" suffix="]" delimiter=",">
<text variable="citation-number"/>
</layout>
</citation>
<bibliography entry-spacing="0" second-field-align="flush" et-al-min="7" et-al-use-first="6">
<layout suffix=".">
<text variable="citation-number" prefix="[^" suffix="]"/>
<text macro="author" suffix=". "/>
<choose>

Change citation style in your Word processor

There are many resources on that can help you with that e.g., https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/c.php?g=359201&p=2426100

Result

I write my article, and add and edit citation using Zotero. I let Zotero generate my bibliography and change it to the citation style to elsevier-vancouver-brackets-circonflexe in my document preferences.

I copy paste my article into the Article CMS rich-text-field and my bibliography into the Addendum CMS rich-text-field.

I can do the same with all the other footnotes i.e. [^ notes on startups].

Article

This is very important statement.[^1], [^2]

This is another very important statement. [^2]

Addendum

[^1] Peter Thiel. Zero to One. Crown Publishing Group; 2014.

[^2] Thiel PA, Masters B. Zero to one: notes on startups, or how to build the future. First edition. New York: Crown Business; 2014.