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Title: Citation Management Software: Zotero


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Citation 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

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Keeping 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

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How 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

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Different 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

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Different 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

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Zotero 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

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Zotero 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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Getting 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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Saving a website
Save several citations
Save an individual citation
Saving a book
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Organize using collections and subcollections
(they look like folders) Drag and drop imported
citations easy!
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Zotero also saves snapshots and/or attachments,
which you can annotate
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Add notes and tags to citations to better
organize them. Sometimes Zotero will capture
subject terms as tags.
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Not 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

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Citations 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!

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Creating 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

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Drag and drop from Zotero/Firefox into Word
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Or right-click selected citations to create a
bibliography.
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Or install the MS Word plugin to create a
bibliography while you write.
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Extra 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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Group libraries work just like collections They
appear along the left You can drag and drop
items from them Requires a Zotero account, and
syncing
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