Install and Run Endnote for OpenOffice (Writer) on USB Drive

Zotero is a terrific piece of programming and I find it faster, easier, and more user friendly than Endnote. Sad to say, Zotero plugin for Firefox will not work properly in the portable version of OpenOffice Writer. You can use Zotero to store all your citation libraries, and you can copy a particular list of references into the clipboard and paste into your Writer document, but you can't use all the Zotero features like insert an in-text citation or directly insert the bibliography because zotero is not able to communicate with OpenOffice portable. Apparently it's something to do with the Java components in OpenOffice; I followed a few threads in the forums but nothing seems to rectify the problem. The designers seems not interested in the fact that the portable version of OpenOffice does not function as effectively as the full version and is way less useful for some people as it can't handle plugins properly. For the meantime, I have given up on OpenOffice Portable and just use the regular version which works fine with Zotero.

I'd rather advice to use Zotero than Jabref. I've already tried Jabref long time ago, and I remembered using excel to manage data references with Jabref and I found it was complicated. Zotero, despite admin authorization required, you can install it. It works with word, open office. And you can use it from any computer at work or at your place.