Zotero

The Library recommends using Zotero for managing your citations. You will need to use Firefox as your web browser in order to use Zotero.

We recommend using the current version as it allows you to sync your account so you can access your citations from another computer. Also, with this version you can create a profile, create and join groups, and keep up to date on what citations other researchers are using.

What is Zotero?

Zotero is useful for quickly adding citations to your personal collection from the library catalogue, article databases, and a variety of websites like amazon.com and the New York Times. The power of Zotero is to link your personal citation collection with the work that you do in Microsoft Word or Open Office.

This short video shows some of the things that Zotero can do.

Zotero Downloads

Download Zotero plugin for Firefox

Download Zotero plugin for Microsoft Word (includes installation instructions)

Download Zotero plugin for OpenOffice and NeoOffice here (includes installation instructions)

Zotero Video Tutorials

There are some excellent and short video tutorials for getting started, managing citations, and integrating with MS Word or OpenOffice.

Zotero Tour

• Tour of Zotero
• Quick Bibliographic Demo

Finding Items

• Part One: Sorting
• Part Two: Basic Search
• Part Three: Advanced Search

Managing Your Library

• Part One: Collections
• Part Two: Tags
• Part Three: Tag Selector Box

Other Features

• Highlighting and Annotation
• Manually Creating Items
• Creating Items from Webpages
• Notes
• Timeline
• Retrieve PDF Metadata

Zotero and Other Tools

• Zotero and Microsoft Word
• Zotero and Google Tools