# Is there a way to link citations or references to Zotero PDF at the exact page?

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**Created:** [August 24, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/is-there-a-way-to-link-citations-or-references-to-zotero-pdf-at-the-exact-page/42267 "2022-08-24T12:58:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asketa](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/5daacb/32.png) [@Asketa](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Asketa)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/is-there-a-way-to-link-citations-or-references-to-zotero-pdf-at-the-exact-page/42267/1 "2022-08-24T12:58:02Z")

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Hi, I’m pretty new to Obsidian/Zotero workflow, so please be gentle (I barely understand how markdown works).

### What I’m trying to do:

As the title says, I would like for my citations to be clickable and open the PDF in Zotero at the exact page.  
For example, if my sentence is something like:

“According to some **(Zahavi 1990)**, consciousness is…”

I would like to be able to click on “(Zahavi 1990)” and open that PDF in Zotero. Or, if it is “(Zahavi 1990: 86)” I would like it to open the PDF on page no. 86.

### What I have tried:

1. I am using a plugin **Zotero Integration** , which can format citations just as I want them (Chicago Manual 17th, author-date). But the problem is that it does it as a simple (unclickable) text.

2. **Citations** plugin is able to do more. If I put {{citekey}}({{zoteroSelectURI}}) (in square brackets) as markdown format, it does take me to the item in Zotero but _it does not open the PDF or take me to the exact page_.

3. If I use **MD notes** plugin, it actually does this almost perfectly functionality-wise. For example, it has imported extracted annotation as this:

“The self that appears to the subject seems to disappear under external analysis.” (Nagel 2012:217)

How this looks like in edit mode: ([Nagel 2012:217] (zotero://open-pdf/library/items/2C3RCPK8?page=217))

And it actually opens the PDF on page 217. The problem with **MD notes** is that it is cumbersome to extract every annotation individually when I come across it, especially if I am just referencing without quoting (like in my first example with Zahavi).

### In conclusion:

Ideally, I would like to connect **Zotero Integration** with **MD note** ’s functionality, to simply press my hotkey, type in the search bar the bibliography item I want, page, and press Enter to get Chicago style as a clickable link to the exact page.

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**Author:** ![PR-C](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/pr-c/32/26098_2.png) [@PR-C](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/PR-C)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/is-there-a-way-to-link-citations-or-references-to-zotero-pdf-at-the-exact-page/42267/2 "2022-08-24T15:34:48Z")

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If you are using Zotero 6, you can just drag & drop annotations into Obsidian with link to the exact annotation and citation included. See this post [Zotero best practices - #184 by warguelles](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/zotero-best-practices/164/184)

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**Author:** ![Asketa](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/5daacb/32.png) [@Asketa](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Asketa)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/is-there-a-way-to-link-citations-or-references-to-zotero-pdf-at-the-exact-page/42267/3 "2022-08-24T17:57:40Z")

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This… is exactly what I wanted. I can’t believe the solution was so simple. And here I was overthinking it with 3 different plugins! You’ve just put a stop to a week of on and off searching for a solution, I can’t thank you enough \<3

This means I will switch to using Zotero’s PDF reader (I have been using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC).

P.S. Is there a way to modify the citation format of drag-and-drop? This one is perfect actually, I was just thinking do we have that option?

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/b/e/bec35fbd23ab28909bb6bfe62cb32eb82dd34019.png) [@system](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/is-there-a-way-to-link-citations-or-references-to-zotero-pdf-at-the-exact-page/42267/4 "2022-08-31T17:58:17Z")

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