Citation management using Zotero

Workshop description

Zotero is a free and open-source bibliography builder that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research. Create reference lists in APA, MLA, and other formats, and organize your citations with tags and collections. Anyone can get a Zotero account for free, and this workshop will tell you what you need to know to get started.

Software used

Zotero is an open-source tool that allows users to collect references, cite them, and organize them in one place. Zotero is free to download. You can download the most recent version for Mac, Windows, or Linux operating systems here: https://www.zotero.org/download/.

NOTICE: Systematic downloading or harvesting of articles, citations, or metadata (e.g. using citation managers such as EndNote or Zotero) is strictly prohibited. You must submit a form here for permission. (Permission is required, or a Text and Data Mining Package should be purchased.)

Workshop materials

  • Zotero is one of several common citation management tools. In this document, we compare the features of these different tools to help you pick the right option for your work.  Here is a citation management tools comparison table.

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