If you have any trouble with this program or want to know more, contact us  or drop by the Learning Commons desk in Forsyth Library.

Tutorial Menu

Install Zotero

Get familiar with Zotero

Add Items
   from the Forsyth Library catalog
   from Forysth Library databases
   from a web page
      annotate a snapshot
   from other locations
   manually

Organize Items

Create Bibliographies

MS Word
   Install Plug-in
   Insert Citations

FAQs

Information for specific subjects
Journal of Animal Science Style

This workshop was originally created by the Digital Media Project at the University of British Columbia.

This workshop content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

See it. Save it. Sort it. Search it. Cite it.

Zotero is a free, open source Firefox Add-on that enables users to collect, manage, and cite research from all types of sources from your Firefox browser. It allows other users to contribute citation styles and site translators.

Zotero was released in Oct 2006, by a group of scholars from the Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University, it is funded by United States institute of museum and library services, the Andrew W Melon Foundation and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. It announced a partnership with Emory University Libraries in November 2008. The name is loosely derived from an Albanian verb meaning "to master".

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

1. Install Zotero to your Firefox browser
2. Get familiar with the Zotero interface
3. Insert items to your zotero libraries 
   
• Collect items automatically to your library from various online sources.
• Insert a web page to your library
• Insert a reference item manually to your library
4. Generate bibliographies 
   
• From Zotero in your chosen reference style 
  
• Install Zotero plug-in to your Microsoft Word and cite while you write

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