License
This guide was slightly modified from "Zotero" by Baylor University an adaptation of "Zotero" by Georgia State University Library under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
You may reproduce any part of it for noncommerical purposes as long as credit is included.
Welcome to UM's Zotero Guide
This guide walks you through the installation, configuration, and use of Zotero, a handy and free reference management tool.
About Zotero
What Zotero Does
Zotero (pronounced "zoh-TAIR-oh") is a browser tool that collects, manages, and cites research sources. It's easy to use, lives in your web browser where you do your work, and best of all it's free. Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies using Word or OpenOffice. It is easier to use than RefWorks and surprisingly powerful.
Since it's a browser plugin, it automatically updates itself periodically to work with new online sources and new bibliographic styles.
Using This Guide
This guide is several pages long -- use the tabs along the side to navigate through topics.
Zotero Quick Start Guide
See also this great guide published by the Zotero developers themselves. Also available as a PDF.
Zotero Tutorials
Click to watch a screencast video of a virtual Zotero tutorial recorded by Ellen Filgo (from Baylor University) on 8/28/20
Zotero.org has a link to more great video tutorials on their site:
Zotero Blog
News from the official Zotero blog.
Zotero alternatives
Check out RefWorks as an alternative, or see what other citation managers can do:
