How to Manage References with Zotero

Zotero (pronounced zoh-TAIR-oh) is a free tool to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your bibliographic information. You can think of it as a personal digital library, and its intuitive interface makes it easy to use. If you€re handling more than a few dozen citations in your research project, Zotero will make life much easier for you.

This ebook is for anyone who is handling a large number of references and needs a better way of managing them, e.g. authors, PhD students, and researchers. I introduce Zotero's main features, offering many examples of the ways in which it can help you manage your work.

No detailed technical knowledge is required, and you are guided through all the stages with clear instructions and screenshots.

You'll also get a 50% discount on my online video-based Zotero course.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction

What is Zotero?
Who is behind it?
Why Zotero?
What this ebook covers
Who this ebook is for
Assumptions
How to use this book

2. How to get Zotero

Downloading Zotero
Firefox plugin

3.Getting started

4. Adding stuff to Zotero

Automatic capture
Adding multiple items
Add by Identifier
Manual entry
Importing PDFs
Duplicate Items
Adding webpages
Importing from EndNote

5. Getting organised

Collections
Tags
Automatic tags
Assigning colour to tags
Related items
Notes
Creating notes from webpages
Saving web links
Saving files
How to link to a Dropbox file from Zotero

6. Searching your Zotero library

Sorting
Basic searching
Advanced searching
Saved searches
Full-text PDF searching

7. Using Zotero with Word

Installing the Word plugin
Inserting citations
Creating bibliographies

8. Adding styles

Installing styles
Using styles

9. Backups & syncing

10. Customizing Zotero

General preferences
Shortcuts

11. Collaboration & sharing

12. Zotero website

13. Mobile devices & apps

Zotero Scanner
Papership
BrowZine
Zotfile

14. Storage

15. Advanced features

Library Lookup
RTF Scan
Zotero and Scrivener
Zotero and Google Docs

16. Next Steps

17. Conclusion

Dr Catherine Pope recently gained her PhD from the University of Sussex, mainly thanks to Zotero, Scrivener, and Evernote. She now runs workshops and develops e-learning resources for researchers. Find out more at www.theDigitalResearcher.com.