What is it? An easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Collect Organize Cite Sync Collaborate Learning Outcomes The Most Common Tools Bibliographies and Citations Zotero Syncing How to insert Zotero citations and references into a Word document

1. Zotero:
Citation Management: Using Zotero
The Next Gen Research
Aziz EL HASSANI
a.elhassani@aui.ma
Feb 5, 2015
Prepared by Aziz El Hassani Multimedia
Librarian (Al Akhawayn University)
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2. Outline
 What is it?
An easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your
research sources.
 Collect
 Organize
 Cite
 Sync
 Collaborate
 Learning Outcomes
 The Most Common Tools
 Bibliographies and Citations
 Zotero Syncing
 How to insert Zotero citations and references into a Word
document

3. What is it?
“free, easy-to-use Firefox extension [plug-in] to help you
collect, manage, and cite your research sources” [Firefox,
Flock, Netscape]
“Zotero will allow you to add files to your citations, create
notes, and highlight them as well. Free accounts are given
100MB in space, but you can upgrade for a fee if more
space is required”.
“The name ‘Zotero’ is loosely based on the Albanian (yes,
Albanian) word zotëroj, meaning ‘to acquire, to master,’ as
in learning.”

5. Learning Outcomes
With Zotero you can:
•Manage your references and citations
•Add PDF and other documents to your citations
•Open, read and create notes in your documents
•Import citations from other citation managers such
as RefWorks, EndNote
•Organize your citations and comments into folders
•Access all citations and documents on a desktop
application, Zotero.org, Apple or Android mobile
devices
•Seamlessly write a paper and cite it at the same
time

6. The Most Common Tools
 Zotero (Free)
 Mendeley (Free)
 EndNote (Paid)
 RefWorks (Paid)

7. Bibliographies and Citations
•Zotero can generate complete bibliographies in
MLA, APA, Chicago styles, (
more than 1.100 styles at the moment)
•Zotero allows you to create your own citation style
•You are able to insert and generate bibliographies
citing when you write with Word or Open Office.
•You may transfer citations from Zotero to EndNote
and from EndNote to Zotero

8. Bibliographies and Citations
•List of compatible sites
•EUI Library Traditional Opac Biblio.eui.eu
•Google Scholar
•Google Books
•OCLC – Worldcat/Firstsearch
•Historical Abstract

9. Zotero Syncing
•Zotero 2.0 and later
support online syncing,
allowing you to access
your Zotero library on
any computer with
internet access.
•Zotero syncing has two
parts: data syncing and
file syncing.

10. Zotero File Storage
•Zotero File Storage is a cloud-based syncing and storage solution
for PDFs, images, web snapshots, and any other files attached to
your Zotero libraries.
•Zotero File Storage synchronizes the files in your personal Zotero
library to all your computers, allows you to share the files in your
group libraries, and makes files available through the zotero.org
website.
•Each Zotero user is given 100 MB of free Zotero File Storage, with
larger storage plans available for purchase.

11. Getting started
Install Firefox plug-in
Open Mozilla Firefox browser
Go to www.zotero.org
Download

12. Thank you
Happy researching!!