Managing Your References Using Zotero

Presenter: Carol Cooke ([email protected])
Co-Host: Hal Loewen ([email protected])

Description: This workshop will introduce you to Zotero 6 - a popular free and open-source citation management tool. Zotero helps you organize references and PDFs and allows you to easily create bibliographies using 1000s of predetermined styles. This session will guide you through the layout of Zotero, how to import references, and how to create a bibliography in the style (e.g., Vancouver, APA, MLA) that you need.

Note: we are waiting for developers with Zotero to release Zotero 7 shortly. Some of the instructions in this video may not be suitable for the new version. We're excited too!

Links mentioned in the video:
Zotero workshop library guide - https://libguides.lib.umanitoba.ca/zo...
Appointments with UM Librarians - https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/appo...
Video - Zotero and the Zotfile extension -    • Zotero and the Zotfile Extension  

0:05 Introduction
4:46 About Zotero
11:15 Zotero software navigation and organization
14:10 Import references using Zotero connector
18:27 Find available PDF for a citation
19:36 Organizing your pdfs - creating collection(s) and sub-collection(s)
26:19 Save a citation for a web page and it's snapshot
29:05 Import references using PDFs and drag and drop
33:10 Import references using an RIS file from an article database
35:42 Adding citations manually
38:17 Writing and citing using Zotero and Word
44:11 Storage costs
46:02 Capturing YouTube citations
47:08 What to do if you are over your storage limit
48:10 Word Zotero Bibliographies and ordering citations in numbered citation styles
48:38 How do you get the bibliography into Word
50:09 Wrap up