I had been wondering whether to point you in the direction of Scrivomatic. On the other hand @bernardo_vasconcelos has just posted an updated version of his ScrivQ template, which might be worth looking into. I don’t know if it’s easier to get into. If I was younger, I’d be playing around with it, but I don’t need it for anything, so haven’t downloaded it.
Cheers
Mark
PS Bookends is the reference manager @nontroppo uses; I think it might well integrate better with Scrivomatic/ScrivQ than Zotero, but again, I don’t know.