About Zotero
Zotero is a program that organizes your research sources in a central location. It is free, easy to use and will save you time when compiling and citing your sources. To get started, watch the video below titled "Top 5 Reasons to Use Zotero"!
Using this guide
New to Zotero? View the videos across each tab in sequence. Experienced with Zotero? Feel free to jump between sections. The guide includes the following:
- Home: About Zotero, and why you should use it.
- Getting Started: Downloading Zotero and a web browser extension.
- Anatomy of a Zotero Library: Understanding the layout of your Zotero program and where to perform specific tasks.
- Importing Content to Zotero: Pulling citations from databases like Web of Science and Academic Search Premier, and from existing PDFs on your desktop.
- Creating Reference Lists with Zotero: Effortlessly adding in-text citations and full bibliographies in Microsoft Word
- Zotero Extras: Installing and using Zotfile AND creating and utilizing groups.
Top 5 Reasons for Zotero
For help
For additional help with Zotero, submit a request via our citation management help form, or explore the discussion threads on Zotero.org.
To explore the features of different citation management software programs, including Mendeley and EndNote, you can explore the citation management resource guide.