Zotero
Your personal research assistant
What is Zotero?
Zotero (pronounced "zoh-TAIR-oh") is an application that collects, manages, and cites research sources. It's easy to use, connects with your web browser to download sources, and best of all it's free.
Zotero will allow you to:
Collect books, articles, videos, etc, and have them all in one location
Easily create citations from databases and PittCat
Tag your citations for greater searchability
Attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations
Enter citations and bibliographies, in many formats (MLA, Chicago, APA, etc.)
Create in-text citations
Share your research and references with a group
For more information about Zotero, please visit the Zotero @ Pitt guide.
Managing Citations
Create collections to organize your references. Collections are like file folders on your computer, but a reference can be in more than one collection at a time. To create a collection:
Select "New Collection.." to create a new collection
Subcollections can be created by right clicking a collection name
Click and drag references to add them to collections and subcollections
Creating a Bibliography
To create a quick bibliography:
Select the references or collections you want to include. Hold the control key and click to select multiple items.
Right-click one of the selected items and choose Create Bibliography.
Choose the bibliographic style you want, select Copy to Clipboard, click OK and paste into your word processor.
Zotero offers word processing plugins for Word and OpenOffice. The plugin adds a Zotero toolbar to your word processor that allows you to add citations to your document while you write.
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