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Zotero

What is Zotero?

Zotero is a citation manager - a program used to keep track of the references you use in a project, then output them in a variety of formats. You can use it to create footnotes, endnotes, in-text citations, and even full bibliographies. If you’ve ever used a citation generator like EasyBib or Citation Machine, then you can think of Zotero as a much more powerful version of the same kind of tool. Computers in the Iwasaki Library should already have Zotero installed, but to get the most out of it, you'll need to install it on your personal computer. 

A screenshot of the Zotero application

Installing Zotero on your computer

Get Zotero

Click the image above, and:

  1. Download the Zotero application
  2. Install a connector for your browser.
  3. Create your free Zotero account using your Emerson.edu email address (doing so gets you unlimited storage)

This video will show you how to get started.

License

Creative Commons LicenseThis information is derived from the guide created by Jason Puckett and licensed by Georgia State University Library under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

You may reproduce any part of it for noncommercial purposes as long as credit is included.  I encourage you to license your derivative works under Creative Commons as well to encourage sharing and reuse of educational materials.