Zotero - Your Research Assistant: Home

With Zotero, cut down on the time it takes to collect your research, create citations, and create your References or Works Cited page! Once installed, collect your sources and have them in a manageable list instantaneously.  Then create your bibiography and paste it into your Word document in seconds!

Install Zotero

1. Go to Zotero.org
2. Select Download for Windows or Mac.
3. Install Zotero Connector (it’s a browser extension).  You do not need to create an account or sync Zotero to use it.  But you can if you prefer.  If you switch computers you can either Sync to other devices, or Export your Library as a Zotero RDF and import it into a different computer.

Add sources to Zotero Library

1. Go to your Browser Extensions (This one is Chrome Browser).

2. Pin the Zotero icon onto the front page of your browser by selecting the Pin icon.

3. The Zotero Icon will now appear in the browser bar. Select the icon when you want to save a source to your Zotero Library.
   1. For a web page, the icon looks like a blue paper

1. 2. For a list, as in a database search, it’s a yellow folder

1. 3. For an article it’s a gray paper

1. 4. For a book it’s a blue book

To create a bibliography or a citations list in Zotero:

1. Highlight one or more references in Zotero and then
2. Right-click (or control-click on Macs) to select “Create Bibliography from Selected Item(s)…”.
3. Then select a citation style for your citation/bibliography format and choose either to create a list of Citations/Notes or a Bibliography.
4. Then choose Copy to Clipboard, which will allow you to save the bibliography to your clipboard to paste into any text field or Word document.
5. Save your Word doc.