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.
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
The Zotero interface
4. Adding stuff to Zotero
Automatic capture Adding multiple items Add by Identifier Manual entry Adding book sections Adding multi-volume works Importing PDFs Duplicate Items Adding webpages Importing from EndNote
5. Getting organised
Collections Tags Automatic tags Assigning colour to tags Related items Notes Saving files How to link to a Dropbox file from Zotero