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Painless way to cite:

Introduction to Zotero (v.1.0)

Dasapta Erwin Irawan

Hydrogeologist

Applied Geology Research Division

Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology

Institut Teknologi Bandung

Indonesia

Visiting fellow

Faculty of Agriculture and Environment

University of Sydney

Australia

This document is made on Mac OSX 10.7.2

(Mountain Lion). You may expect slightly

different menus and buttons on Linux and

Windows.

This document is only the intro part for

Zotero. So you can tweak it more as you

move along working with your papers.

The software components and workflows

introduced in this document are common, so

it can be applied to other similar reference

manager.

But off course, they would have different

name of buttons, different names in their

menus.

Zotero: the easiest way to pronounce it is “zo tay ro”

What is it?

it’s a reference manager

What is reference manager?

it’s kind of your own personal digital library

What is it really?

it stores all your pdfs along with their citation infos.

Then what is a citation info?

it’s the ID of your pdf or any resources you have in you Zotero library.

How to get this citation info?

well this would be another story.

Where can I get Zotero?

www.zotero.org

Is it free?

Yes, it is. It’s free like breathing.

It’s also open source. So you can modified it to get a better version.

But we’re not software developer are we.

Does it run on anything?

Yes, it runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Can I connect it to word processor?

Yes, you can.

It has add-on for LibreOffice and Microsoft Office.

See the download page.

Does it provide online/cloud library?

Yes it does. Free at some limited size.

Where can I ask for more questions?

There’s a Zotero user group: https://forums.zotero.org/categories/

or just mention me @dasaptaerwin

Your

collections/libr

aries are listed

here

Your papers,

books,

websites,

movies,

microchip, or

whatever

are listed here

If you try to click one, then a column on the

right pops.

It shows the citation info of your clicked

paper.

So where it comes from?

It is from your imported BibTex (*.bib) file.

Or

You can just input the info one by one (It’s

annoying isn’t it).

So let’s begin:

Here’s the buttons and

what they do.

“Add new collection”

Use this to make new

collections or libraries

“Add new item”

Use this if you wish to

add a new paper in to

your library.

“Attach pdf”

Click this if you want to

attach or link you paper

item with the pdf.

“Make notes”

Use this to make notes

The menu is straight

forward. You can try

one by one.

Use the “import” menu

to insert a new BibTex

citation info

Once the add-on is installed, then

you will have a new set of menu

or icons in your word processor.

This is on Microsoft Word

And this on is on LibreOffice

Since many of you perhaps on Ms

Word, so how it works.

For adding your

bibiliography or

reference list at

the bottom of

your text

For adding new

citation in your

text

To set citation

style.

To modify your

previously made

bibliography or

citation

This is how to add a citation in

your text.

Place the cursor in your intended

place of citation.

Then hit “add citation”.

First time it will open citation style

window. Choose your style. You

will only need to do this once. Or

you can change it into another

style using “set document

preferences”

Then this pops up.

Clicking the arrow near the Z pulls

down two options.

I always use “Classic View”.

Then go to next slide.

Then your Zotero window pops

up.

Choose your intended library,

Choose the paper you’re going to

cite then hit “OK”.

You can use search button above

to search a keyword or an author

from your library.

The your citation will show up like

this.

To make Bibliography of

Reference list:

Place the cursor in your intended

location.

Then hit “add bibliography”

Now you can see your cited paper

in your reference list.

The list will be automatically

changed every time you add

new citations in the text.

Setting citation

style.

Choose your

intended citation

style. The

common styles

are:

- APA

- Chicago

- Harvard

- MLA

- Vancouver

What is you can’t

find your

intended style?

Go to Zotero app

Click

“Preferences”

If you use

Click “Styles”

section

Clicking this will opens

Zotero citation online

database. So make

sure you are connected

to the net. Then it will

opens the following

page.

The page of

Zotero citation

style (csl)

database.

Type in your

journal’s name,

then click the

matching style.

Then it will

download a file

with *.csl

extension.

Then go back to

Zotero.

Click “+”

Browse and

choose your *.csl

file

Then your

citation style is

listed in your

Zotero.

Thank you.

@dasaptaerwin

To the extent possible under law, the author of this document have waived all

copyright and related or neighboring rights to “Painless way to cite: Introduction to

Zotero”. This work is published from Sydney, Australia.