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Zotero

This is a brief introduction to the Zotero citation and reference manager.

Creating Quick Bibliographies

First, select one or more items to cite, and right click to show the menu. Click on Create Bibliography from Item.

Screenshot showing right click menu to create a bibliography

 

 

Then, select your citation style from the menu. This example shows APA as the selected style. You can use one of the listed styles or select from the "More Styles..." submenu.

 

Screenshot of View menu showing Citation Style selections

 

Select whether you'd like a bibliography or citations, and select the format you'd like them in. For pasting into a Word document, RTF is a good method.

 

You can paste your bibliography into your document.

 

Connecting Zotero to Other Tools

Connecting Zotero to Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, Google Docs, or Overleaf lets you do even more! See the following links for details.

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