Citation Management with Zotero

Zotero is a citation tracking platform that allows you to quickly and easily create in-text citations and bibliographies. It quickly allows you to take important information from anything you might find from the internet including scholarly publications, news articles and even YouTube videos. This workshop will show you the basics of what you can do with it.

Workshop Material

• Handout
• Slides

Setup Instructions

• In preparation for this workshop, you will need to register for a Zotero account

• Download the desktop client and browser extension.

• Zotero should automatically install plugins for your word processors, like LibreOffice or MS Word, if not you can download them directly.

Follow Up

• Try our new Interactive Zotero Guide

• Extend the utility of Zotero, try out some plugins for quality of life.

• To use Zotero collaboratively, you can create or join a group

• If you wish to use Zotero on your iOS or Android device, there are official and third party apps available.

This workshop is brought to you by the Brock University Digital Scholarship Lab. For a listing of our upcoming workshops go to Experience BU if you are a Brock affiliate or Eventbrite page for external attendees.