In this blogpost, I will explain what Zotero is and how I used it in my workflow with MS Word – although you can use other word processors like LibreOffice or NeoOffice. I used Zotero and Microsoft Word in collaboration for my PhD thesis and it saved me a great amount of time.
Reference management software like Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote makes this process easier and less time consuming. Yet, until it is reformed, academic writers need to spend considerable time to present all that information properly. It is a time-consuming practice and, as Patrick Dunleavy suggested it is an old one that needs to be changed. For academic writers, it is much more of a challenge because we need to worry about giving proper references and citations according to the various rules for our target journals. It is a challenge to sit at the desk everyday and write the manuscript you have been working on for the last months or years. This post reminds me of just how far things have come since I wrote my own PhD using the only tool available to me then – Endnote Version 6! Enjoy! Claire He contacted us offering to share his experiences of a referencing management system called Zotero. More information about Zutilo can be found on the Firefox page for the Zutilo addon.įor more information about plugins for Zotero, visit their support page about plugins.Gökser Gökçay is an independent researcher with a PhD in Modern Turkish History and he also writes about software applications for research.
More information can be found at the Zotero bookmarklet page. The image below shows the bookmarklet in action. Clicking the folder icon lets you then choose from a list of articles to import, which is shown in the image below. If there are multiple search results to choose from, the Zotero icon will change from a single page to a folder.
Manual Add - Manually add citations and PDFs to your Zotero library.Īn image of the Zotero web extension adding a citation is pictured below.Zotero's Bookmarklet - takes a snapshot of whichever website you are currently viewing and adds the information, including the citation and any applicable files, to your Zotero library.An icon is embedded in your browser near the top location bar it will change to a picture of a book or a picture of a folder depending on how it can save the information you are viewing. Web Extension - This is the easiest tool to save your citations to Zotero.For more information, visit the Zotero website. You can add items to your Zotero library by using the web extension, bookmarklet, or even by manually adding citations and files.