Zotero Citation Management Tool

Download Zotero and associated plug-ins using these links:

• Zotero
  For Mac, Windows, and Linux; conncectors for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari
• Zotero Quick Start Guide : The A, B, C's of "Z"
• Zotero Word Processor Integration:
  About the word processor plug-in to cite Zotero items in your Microsoft Word and/or OpenOffice documents
• Zotero Mobile Apps
  iOS and Andriod developers have been hard at work creating apps so that you can get the most out of Zotero on your mobile devices!
   
• Follow @Zotero on Twitter

Zotero is a free, open source, easy-to-use citation management program (with add ons for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari) that helps you to collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. Designed to be intuitive and unobtrusive (it looks a lot like an iTunes library), Zotero is a powerful and handy tool for any academic.

Zotero works on all three major operating systems: PC, Mac, and Linux.

Zotero Quick Start Guide: The A, B, C's of "Z"

Zotero is a production of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and is funded by the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Zotero is comprised of three components:

• Translators - Interpret meta-data from websites, databases, videos, images, etc.

• Styles - Choose from over 20 standard citation styles and add more if necessary.

• Storage - Zotero lives on your computer and includes cloud storage for citations and files

Once you get Zotero plugins installed on your browser, look for the Zotero icon in the toolbar of the browser.

What does "Zotero" mean?

'Zotero' is based on the Albanian word "zotëroj," which means “to acquire, to master,” in terms of learning.

This Guide is based on the Zotero LibGuide by Marie Sciangula which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License.

The Handout is modified from Jason Puckett / jpuckett@gsu.edu Georgia State University Library which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License.