1. K O I C H I I N O U E
S U B J E C T L I B R A R I A N
( H U M A N I T I E S & S O C I A L S C I E N C E S )
Zotero for Firefox
2. This tutorial covers…
How to set up Zotero
How to download bibliographic info of books and
journal articles
How to create/edit in-text citations and
bibliographies
3. Reference management software
Comparison of Software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_referen
ce_management_software
Zotero is a production of the Center for History and
New Media at George Mason University.
It is also funded by the United States Institute of
Museum and Library Services, the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation.
4. What does Zotero do?
Manages references
Allows you to access your library from any
computer
Downloads bibliographic data from web pages
Creates in-text citations/footnotes/bibliographies
in a referencing style you choose
More info at http://www.zotero.org/support/
5. Firefox download
The current version of Zotero for Firefox (version
4) requires Firefox 17 or later
Victoria ITS does not support Mozilla Firefox
(though it supports Frontmotion Firefox version
3.5)
Go to www.mozilla.com (US-English version
recommended, especially for MLA)
77. 5-minute challenge
Open a new Word document. Create 3 in-text
citations/footnotes in your preferred style.
Create the bibliography at the end of the
document.
82. Have fun with Zotero
Thank you for your attention.
For further information, view Zotero’s support
page @ http://www.zotero.org/support/
Editor's Notes
This is Zotero’s home page.
Click “Register” to create your account.
Log in to see your library.
Download Zotero to your computer. If you don’t have an account with Zotero, it’ll ask you to create one.
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Zotero icon appears in the bottom right corner of Firefox once it’s downloaded.
Click Zotero icon. Zotero pane appears at the bottom of Firefox.
Zotero pane has a similar interface to iTunes.
In the left column, your library appears and you can organise your references into folders and sub-folders.
Note the add new folder icon at the top of the column. Click it to create a new folder.
Right-click the folder where you want to create a sub-folder and select the “New Subcollection” option.
In the centre column, you see the items saved in the highlighted folder in the left column.
In the right column, you see the bibliographic information of the item highlighted in the centre column.
You can view, add and edit your Zotero library from any computer. The contents of your libraries will synchronise at any location.
When you download Zotero to a new computer, make sure to sync your new library with your other libraries.
To do that, click the action button on Zotero pane. The action button is the gear icon next to the green plus sing button. Select preferences.
Preferences window pops up. Select sync and type in your Zotero username and password, tick “Sync automatically” and close the window. Zotero keeps your username and password and automatically sync whenever you open the pane.
Zotero has a built-in translator that reads web pages and identify bib info. It does not read all web pages, but it reads most library catalogues, google and Amazon. For example, suppose you want to download the bib info of this book in Victoria Library Catalogue.
Simply click the book icon that appears next to the URL.
Zotero automatically downloads the bib info into your library.
Zotero is able to download bib info of multiple items at once. For example, in this results page, a folder icon appears next to the URL.
When you click the folder icon, a window pops up and you can select the items you want to download.
Zotero can search for books by ISBN. ISBN is a unique number assigned to a book. It is either 13 or 10-digit numbers.
You can find the ISBN search button at the top of Zotero pane. It looks like a pen.
Copy and paste the ISBN you found into the search box. Take out the hyphens before you search.
Click the new item button, the green plus icon, and select the appropriate item type, ex. book section and news article.
Zotero’s translator also reads some electronic journal databases.
Note the document icon next to the URL and click to download.
Suppose you want to download this journal article. Most databases give you an option to export citation data to Endnote.
Selectthe “Export directly to Endnote” option. Zotero will download the citation.
One easy way of creating a bibliography is put together references you want to cite into a folder. Highlight the items, right-click and select “create bibliography from selected items”.
Create bibliography window pops up. You can select a referencing style you like and select an output format. If you choose copy to clipboard, you can paste the bibliography in any document such as Word and email.
This is an example of a bibliography in the MLA style. You can edit the bibliography without leaving the document.
Click “Add-Ins” to find Zotero buttons
For example, in Word 2007, Zoteroplugin looks like this. Click the “Add-ins” tab in Word. You’ll find these buttons.
Suppose you want to add an in-text citation to this sentence.
Click the first button.
Zotero inserts the citation automatically.
Click the second button from your left.
Click the ‘Show Editor’ button.
You can keep adding in-text citations to your document.
Click the third button at the end of the document.
Zotero automatically creates a bibliography of references cited in your document.
Highlight the bibliography.
Say you want to change the style from APA to MLA. Click the document preferences button.
