Zotero

About

Zotero is a free and open-source research tool that allows you to collect, organize, and share research in a variety of ways. Zotero combines the best features of older reference manager software, such as the ability to save author, title, and publication fields and export them as formatted references, with the best features of modern software and web applications, such as the ability to organize, tag, and search in advanced ways. When Zotero detects that you are viewing a book, article, or other object on the internet, it can automatically extract and save complete bibliographic references. Zotero seamlessly transmits data to and from other web services and applications, and it works both online and offline on your personal devices.

To learn more about what Zotero can do, visit our Support pages.

To learn more about the people that have made Zotero possible, see Credits and Acknowledgements.

Zotero is a project of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of software and services for researchers and cultural heritage institutions. It was created at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

 

How to use Zotero for referencing?

In order to use Zotero, you need to follow following instruction.

1. Download and install Zotero in your computer

• Go to: https://www.zotero.org/download/
• Click on the Download button
• Save the file to your computer
• Run the setup program -- this requires administrative access

 

2. Add referencing articles to Zotero

You can use 4 different ways to add arricles in zotero for referencing.

• Manually
• Using DOI, PMID or other document identification numbers
• From Google scholar
• From Web-browser

 

3. Add zotero citation and referencing into a microsoft word

In order to add zotero citation and referencing,

• Open your Zotero library while using Zotero with Word.
• The first time you use the Insert Citation button in the Zotero Toolbar, you will be prompted to choose your referencing style. Choose the appropriate style. 

         

• To add a citation to your Word document, click the Insert Citation icon. This will bring up a search box. There are two ways to insert your citations:
• Enter a keyword, title or author name in the search box. Zotero will search your library for the appropriate reference. Simply click on the reference you want then press enter. Zotero will insert it into your document. 

         

• You can also click Z to select Classic View, this will bring you to the Zotero library, select a reference from your Zotero library and click OK to insert this citation. 

         

     In order to edit citations

• Click an in-text citation you want to edit, then click Edit citation icon from the Add-on tool bar.
• In the red search box (see the image below), click once on the citation (Wakeham et al., 2012), this will open the edit box.
• Add page numbers in the Page field, or Suppress Author, as required. and press the Enter key.

 

 

4. Change referencing style in word using zotero

 

5. Use Zotero as referencing tool in google doc