Reference Management with Zotero
Cornelia Eitel University Library Basel [email protected] Zotero
• Free available bibliography manager (= collect and gather citations of books, articles, websites and store PDFs) • Insert citations directly from Zotero to documents; Format easily citations and choose the right citation style • Installation: www.zotero.org: 1. Zotero 5.0 for Windows, MacOS or Linux
2. Zotero Connector (available for Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera; NOT Internet Explorer)
• Tutorial: http://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials Support: http://www.zotero.org/support Collect Citations from Swissbib Basel -Bern
Zotero- Connector Manage Citations with Zotero
Personal Collected References Details of a Folders (potentially with PDFs) Reference Insert references into your document
Zotero toolbar in Word Add/Edit Citation
Add/Edit Bibliography at the end of the document
Document Search mask for the references Preferences: in your Zotero (Alternative: get Change citation an overview of your Zotero style Library with Classic View) (eg: Vancouver style or APA6) Edit a citation in Word
• Mark the citation • Click on the Icon «Edit Citation» • Click in the red bar on the citation • Supplement more information in the 3 fields «Page», «Prefix», «Suffix» Edit a reference in Word (2)
• Mark the citation in Word • Click on the Icon «Edit Bibliography»
• Zotero will be opened
• Mark the reference in the right column
• Edit the reference at the bottom Collect and manage references: Basic commands
Create collections/folders and subcollections
Search for a number as ISBN, DOI or PubMed-ID (e.g. 21572031); the citation will be added at once
Attach a file from your computer (e.g. PDFs) to a citation (text is searchable)
Add your own notes to a citation (which are searchable)
For using Zotero on different computers synchronize them on the Zotero server; it‘s a good backup as well
Share references with others (account is necessary) Further commands & settings
Menu File -> Import: Import a bibliographic list (e.g. the citations from another literature management programme as Endnote)
Menu File -> Export Library: Create a backup of your references regularly!
Menu Edit -> Preferences → General: Automatically attach PDFs (is not working wholly)
Menu Edit -> Preferences → Advanced → Files and Folders → location of stored data on your computer (references, PDFs)
Menu Edit -> Preferences → Sync: for the synchronization you need to get an account (zotero.org )
Menu Edit -> Preferences → Cite: get additional Styles; Open Style Editor Different ways of importing PDFs
A) Attach a PDF stored on your computer to a citation with B) Attach a PDF with Drag&Drop from your computer to Zotero C) Preferences -> «Automatically attach PDF..» = PDFs are attached automatically. Attention: Not all available PDFs will be attached. You need to download them to your computer separately and attach them «by hand» as described above (A or B)
PDFs (text) is fully searchable within Zotero! Thank you for your attention!
Contact / Help:
Med Cornelia Eitel University Library Basel / Hauptbibliothek [email protected]