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BIO 197: FYS You and Your Genome: Zotero Citation Management

About Zotero

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.

What's ZoteroBib?

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.

Get Zotero

Get Zotero

Click the image above (or this link https://www.zotero.org/) and:

  1. Download and install the Zotero application
  2. Come back and install a connector for your browser. (this helps you to download citation info directly from library databases)

Adding citations manually

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.

Adding citations directly from databases

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: