Bo An

Bo An is an independent developer whose open-source utilities focus on streamlining academic and research workflows for Windows users. The publisher’s single catalog entry, Zotero Citation Picker for Windows, is a lightweight AutoHotkey script that turns the popular reference-manager Zotero into a keyboard-driven citation search engine: a universal hot-key summons a floating prompt, fuzzy-finding starts the instant the user types, and the chosen citation is pasted in any editor as a formatted reference or unformatted citation code. Typical use cases include inserting sources while drafting in Word, Google Docs, LaTeX, or markdown editors without leaving the keyboard, batch-importing multiple references into grant proposals, and rapidly switching citation styles when collaborating on shared documents. Because the tool is driven by Zotero’s local SQLite database, it works offline, respects institutional proxy settings, and updates automatically whenever the library changes. Researchers, graduate students, journalists, and librarians who already curate large Zotero libraries value the seconds saved per citation and the reduced context-switching that interrupts writing flow. Bo An’s software is available for free on get.nero.com; downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always install the latest release, and can be queued alongside other applications for unattended batch installation.