Working with Bib files in Word/LibreOffice

Zotero.org also provides bibtex plugins for Libreoffice and MS Word.

I know this is a tad old but I've just pass through this experience now and might be useful to someone.

I use JabRef as my Reference Manager on TeX, it does enable to export to Ms Word easily:

File... Export - Select MS Office 2007 xml.

It works perfectly with my MS Office 2010 and should work with recent versions too. I do recommend using UTF8 as Database Encoding as this is what MS xml expect.

Inside MS Word go to the References tab, then click Manage Sources.

Press the Browse... button and select your exported file

I have tried couple of above approaches on Mac OS. None worked. However, steps provided by Yifan Peng worked like a charm (took less than a min).

Here are the steps:

1. Go to following location ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.word/Data/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office
2. See if Sources.xml file exists. If so, create a back up of this file (e.g., Sources.xml.bak)
3. Use JabRef to export your .bib file to Word supported .xml file. Name it as Sources.xml.
4. Move it to the above location.
5. Restart word and start working. :-)