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Reference management: Zotero

This guide provide information about reference management tools

Zotero support site for more information

This guide will take you through the basics, but there are many resources available at Zotero.org to help you learn Zotero. A good way to test whether the programme works for you: install Zotero and jump right in. Then, when you can't figure something out, check out Zotero's Support Page and Video Tutorials.

1. Check the Zotero support site for more information

2. Zotero users, and other community members have produced video tutorials for Zotero

Zotero

What is Zotero?

  • https://www.zotero.org
  • Zotero is free to use, open source and developed by a nonprofit organization, active user community
  • Allows you to keep all of your citations in one place
    • Zotero is reference management software designed to collect, store, share, manage and cite sources. 

How to instal Zotero

  • Close MS Office applications such as Word, PowerPoint and even Outlook during the installation.e.g. Word automatically installs the Zotero add-on when the program is closed. more info

  • staff (Tampere Universities) can install the software on their workstation from the Software Center, search for the software by typing Zotero in the search box

  • Zotero is free to download for Windows, Mac, or Linux at zotero.org.
  • You can also create a free Zotero account in order to sync your desktop library with a web version. This makes it easy to access all your references if you need to use a different computer, and it also allows you to create group libraries if you want to collaborate with others.
  • When you are downloading Zotero to your computer, you may want to install the Zotero Connector in your web browser of choice so that you can save references to your library with a single click

  • The storage on Zotero's free plan is limited to 300MB, but you can pay for additional storage.

Quick to learn, many user guides and demos available in net

  • how to start to use Zotero info

You can configure useful settings: guide

PDF reader, allowing users to open PDFs in a new tab, navigate easily between PDFs and library, highlight, annotate them, add comments or tags to the highlighted parts and the annotations, and extract the annotations in a note. More info

Step 1: You Tube Video (1:21) How to install Zotero (made by Georgia State University)

Step 2: You Tube Video (7:19) Getting to Know Zotero. made by ISU Libraries

Step 3: You Tube Video - Zotero: How to add references 2:17 (made by The University of Guelp Library)

Step 4: You can configure settings

You can configure settings: tips

Step 5: Using Zotero Sync 1:32 min (made by Sacred Heart University Library)

Step 6: Create bibliography

 You Tube video (3:10) Instructions on how to export bibliographic data from Zotero to Excel in order to create a summary table for a literature review; presented by Tabitha Ochtera, Electronic Resources Librarian.

Step 7: Using Zotero with Microsoft Word ( made by University of Maryland Health Science and Human Services Library 6:23)

Step 8: Using Zotero's Word Plug-in (made by Laurier Library 2:01)

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