Title: Citation Management Software: Zotero
1Citation Management SoftwareZotero
Online guide http//www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/zote
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- Josh Wilson
- Physical and Mathematical Sciences Reference
Librarian - North Carolina State University Libraries
2Keeping track of all of your research
- How do you save all your research work?
- Bookmarking webpages is unstable, no easy way to
organize - Large Word or Excel files
- Notecards are great until one day you leave them
on the bus - Citation management software
- Saves all references from most databases in ONE
place
3How Citation Managers Work
Agricola Web of Science Saved citations
Other websites and sources Saved citations
Books from catalog Saved citations
Export
- Zotero
- Access from anywhere
- Links back to articles, saved PDFs
- Organize citations into multiple folders
- Create bibliographies
4Different products
- Zotero
- Free, browser-based, works with Firefox
- Library support available!
- RefWorks
- Free for NCSU students, internet-based, available
through Libraries site - Library support available!
- EndNote
- Costs 100, standalone software installed on
your computer - No choice is permanent! Easy to export between
them if your needs change
5Different products
- Well talk about Zotero today
- Easy to use and demonstrate
- Stable
- Free
- Recommended for Firefox users
- If you think another product suits your work
better later on, its easy to change
6Zotero setup
- Lets take a few minutes now to install Zotero
and talk about setting up an account - Firefox is requried (sort of). Zotero is a
browser plugin a piece of software that extends
the functionality of your browser. - Setting up an account is required for syncing
between computers, using Groups, and backing up
references
7Zotero setup
- Start Firefox
- Go to http//www.zotero.org/
- Download latest version
- May need to Allow pop-ups/install
- Will require restart of Firefox
- Now use the Zotero button to open the pane
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9Getting citations into Zotero
- All citation managers work mostly the same
- Export from database, catalog, webpage, etc.
- Import into citation manager
- Most modern citation managers work with nearly
all databases - Zotero has a one-click function that makes this
even easier for most databases
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11Saving a website
Save several citations
Save an individual citation
Saving a book
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13Organize using collections and subcollections
(they look like folders) Drag and drop imported
citations easy!
14Zotero also saves snapshots and/or attachments,
which you can annotate
15Add notes and tags to citations to better
organize them. Sometimes Zotero will capture
subject terms as tags.
16Not all is happy rainbows
- Some databases do not support Zotero
- You may be able to export/import manually
- Export as an RIS or BibTeX file (or an EndNote
format?) - Import into Zotero
- Last resort
- Create a New Item in Zotero
- Fill in fields you need
17Citations imported now what?
- Organize
- Add to appropriate collections/groups
- Add notes
- Expand citation to see these
- Add tags
- Sometimes Zotero captures subject terms
- Add attachments
- Expand citation to see these
- NOT BACKED UP!
18Creating a bibliography
- Eventually youll write something and need to
cite all the references youve collected - Zotero automatically creates bibliographies for
you - Hundreds of styles available
- A few different ways to do this
19Drag and drop from Zotero/Firefox into Word
20Or right-click selected citations to create a
bibliography.
21Or install the MS Word plugin to create a
bibliography while you write.
22Extra stuff you can do
- Configure preferences
- Enables you to locate full text online
- Simplifies saving items
- Create a Zotero account
- Turn on syncing
- Use Groups to share references
- Work with others on a research project
- Everyone can save to the same account, create a
shared literature database - Annotate screenshots, manage PDFs
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24Group libraries work just like collections They
appear along the left You can drag and drop
items from them Requires a Zotero account, and
syncing