Research Guides: LIBRARY: Zotero: About

Accessing Zotero:

STEPS:

Open the Zotero download page using the web browser you prefer to use for research.
Install using the Firefox or Standalone versions. Check the way they treat the Microsoft Word plugins
Scroll to the bottom of the page - add the connector for the browser you have chosen, Chrome, Safari or Firefox. If you chose to use Firefox you will also have to add the plugin for Microsoft Word.
If necessary, restart your browser.
You can check the status of the connectors in Tools or Windows/Extensions (Chrome)

Workshop handouts

Zotero Workshop Handout
This is the handout we give out in the library's Zotero workshops. It covers all the basics.
Zotero: Online features
A quick reference to using the sync and group features of Zotero.

Zotero Tutorials
Screencasts demonstrating many of the basic functions of Zotero.

About Zotero

What Zotero Does

Zotero (pronounced "zoh-TAIR-oh") is a Firefox addon that collects, manages, and cites research sources. It's easy to use, lives in your web browser where you do your work, and best of all it's free.

Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies.

It automatically updates itself periodically to work with new online sources and new bibliographic styles.

Installing Zotero

This video will show you how to get started. For more details, see the next page: Installing Zotero for Firefox.

Don't like Zotero?

Check out EndNote as an alternative, or see what other citation managers can do:

Acknowledgement

This guide is based on one created by Jason Puckett and licensed by Georgia State University Library under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.