What Zotero Does
Zotero (pronounced "zoh-TAIR-oh") is an application that collects, manages, and cites research sources. It's easy to use, connects with your web browser to download sources, and best of all it's free.
Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies.
The screencast below gives you a walk-through on downloading it and what it can do.
ZoteroBib s a free and easy way to create bibliographies made by the creators of Zotero. It can create bibliographies in 9,000 different styles that you can copy and paste into your paper.
Click the image above (or this link https://www.zotero.org/) and:
Ideally, you'll use the more efficient method in the next section, for adding citations into your library directly from databases. But sometimes you may need to add them manually. This video explains the process of adding citations manually.
The Zotero Connector that you installed after you downloaded/installed the Zotero client is one of the super-helpful features. It allows you to download citations (and often the PDFs) directly from library databases into your Zotero library. When you're in a library database such as WorldCat Discovery, Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, and almost any others), looking at a specific citation, you'll see an icon at the top right of the browser. The icons indicate the citation type: