Zotero Install and Practice: Zotero Overview

In this assignment, you will:

1. Install the Zotero standalone application on your computer and add the Zotero Connector to your browser.
2. Create an account and sign in.
3. Verify that the Zotero plug-in is installed in Microsoft Word and ready for use.
4. View an article and a book via several different databases and websites and save them in your Zotero account.
5. Use Microsoft Word to create in-text citations and reference list entries for the article and book and understand why those citations might look slightly different.

This assignment should take approximately 30-45 minutes.

Zotero is a free web-based bibliographic citation management tool that includes many citation styles.

Zotero has two parts:  a standalone application, which is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux; and the Zotero Connector browser extension, which is available for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.  The connector will not work on other browsers, such as Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Explorer, or Opera.

Users may access their data from any computer that has Zotero installed. (Zotero is a local download, so users must install it on every computer they will use.)

Group collaboration and sharing of documents is available.

Microsoft Word has an add-in for Zotero that allows citations and references to be created within a Word document.  A local installation of Word must be available; Zotero cannot be used on Microsoft Word Online.