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Zotero is the free easy to use reference management tool that I recommend to students and researchers at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
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• What is Zotero?
• How does Zotero work?
• Adding posts to Zotero
• www.zotero.org – installation and register
• Managing your library
• Zotero – extra features
• Zotero and word/open office
Agenda
• Firefox add-ons
• Standalone
• Developed by Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
• Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
What is it?
Firefox Add-on
Works with:
And many more…
Adding posts
Next to the URL you will find an icon if Zotero is recognizing the type of material.
The yellow folder means that Zotero is recognizing several different posts at the webpage
Click on the yellow folder and this window appears.
Choose the posts you would like to import to your library.
Import
There are three other icons which can appear at a webpage
Article
Book
Blogpost
Icons
Structure
The Icon structure is used in the saved post in your library
A new post can be manually inserted into the collection
Zotero has a long list of different templates depending on the type of material that you will
like to add to your collection.
Manually add a new Item
My library - folders
Saved posts In chosen folder
The bibliographical post
Library
Create account
Web account view
• First install Firefox
• Go to www. zotero.org
• Click on
• Create an account
• Remember to install PDF-indexing, Word plug-in
• Also Sync your account in preferences.
Installation
Your turn!
New collection
New group collectionShare collections with other Zotero users
Personal collections
Duplicate itemsUnfiled items
Trash
Collection
Menu
New Item
Create new item from current page
Add item by identifier
New note
Advanced search
New child attachment
Preferences
Import or Export bibliographical data to other software as RefWorks,
Mendeley, EndNote etc.
Preferences and settings to your personal Zotero account.
Link to Zotero help and support, will open up in
new window
Actions
Sync and Searchare the ones you shouldget set from the start to get the most out of your
Zotero account.
Preferences
Fill in your account information on all
computers you are using for automatic
Zotero sync.
This will also enable you to
access your Zotero Web Account with
fully updated library
Sync
Installing PDF indexing enables Zotero to make
searches in full-text documents as
articles, reports etc.
This is not activated by default but has to be installed by
each user.
Search
A new post imported directly from the current website you are
visiting
You can add independent notes as well as notes attached to a specific posts.
You can manually attach useful information to a post.
Other Functions
Search in Zotero
Quick Search,Searches all fields & tags by default, but has a few
alternatives as well.
Advanced search with
more searchoptions.
It is possible to save a search, and set it up so that Zotero creates a
folder with material that matches your criteria
Sync with Zotero server.Connect and update your account if
you are working on several computers.
Toggle tab mode. Full screen zotero
Close zotero window.Zotero is always open
when Firefox is running
View, show and Lookup functions.Shows the file in different versions or matches it to defined search engines
and databases.
Features
Deleting material
You can either delete a post from a specific
folder, keeping the post in the library
Or completely delete the post from the library
Mark the post and right click on your mouse to
enter the menu.
Word and open office
To be able to use Zotero as a tool in Word or Open office, a plug-in has to be installed. You can download it and find more information here:http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_installation_for_zotero_2.1
When installed correctly, it
should look like this in the Cite
menu, in Preferences
Insert citation
When the plug-in is installed, this menu-bar should be visible
in Word
Edit citation
Insert bibliography
Refresh
Edit bibliography
Set Doc Preferences, i.e.
Citation Style
Remove codes
Word
The first time you choose Insert Citation, this window appears
Choose the preferred Citation Style for the document you are working with
Endnotes or Footnotes can also be chosen
You can later on change and try other styles in the Set doc pref.
Citation style
Next time when you chooose insert citation, the Quick Format Citation
Box will appear
When you start to type in the box, Zotero searches in your library
Quick format citation box
When you have chosen reference you can click on the box and insert page numbers.
Then press enter and the citation will
appear in the text in the preferred style.
Insert citation
When you have finished your document,
Zotero will automatically generate a Bibliography
in the chosen Citation Style
Create Bibliography
Install Citationstyle
https://www.zotero.org/support/styleshttps://www.zotero.org/styles
Find your preferred style, view the style before installing.
Click on the chosen style and it will instantly be installed to your account
Change Citationstyle
Click on this icon and the Document Preferences
will open.
You can see the styles available, and the new styles
that you have added.
When clicking OK your document update to the new
style.
Good Luck!
If you have any questions or problems,Please contact me:
Daniel Gunnarsson
Mail: [email protected]
Telefon: 3268 6817
