Zotero for Citation Management

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Citation Management

Citation management is crucial for maintaining integrity and credibility by crediting original authors and avoiding plagiarism.

Tools like EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley help organize and cite sources efficiently, saving time and ensuring consistent formatting.

What is Zotero?

An open-source citation management application that makes it simple to gather, organize, cite, and share information. This program is compatible with both Windows and Mac.

Software Connector

FIVE REASON TO USE ZOTERO

Easy Organization
Automatic Citation
Web Integration

Collaboration
Free and Open-Source

Quick Guide: APA Citation Format

Installation

Step 1: Install the software on your computer (Download)
Step 2: Install the Connector on your browser (Available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge)
Step 3: Start to use

Sync Your Device

Zotero support various devices to use the same account and share the literatures.

How to sync?
Step 1: Create your Zotero Account with your USJ or Personal Email (Register)
Step 2: Sync your account: Find Preference in your Zotero software, and insert your username and password

Use in Google docs/ MS word

1. You need to install the Connector on the browser before you start.
2. Use the same registered email address to log in the Google Docs.
3. The word processor function may appear after the browser and software restart.

1. Auto-installation should show the add-on on the top bar menu.
2. You need to reinstall the function if you don’t find it in your MS Word.
3. Find Preference in your Zotero Software
4. Find Word Processor in the Cite section.
5. The word processor function may appear after the MS Word and software restart.

The solution applied to Windows only.

Follow the steps to find the location for word processor.

Open a Word document
Go to “File”
Choose “option”
Choose “advanced options” from the drop-down menu
Go down to the “General” chapter and click on “File Location”
A window appears. Double click on the line “Startup Files”. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN THIS WINDOW !!!!!!!!
Carefully record/note/copy the way in the address bar at the top of the window (to reveal it easily just click on this address bar and copy the address.
Open a new window of disk C for example
Paste the address in this window. You must then have access to an empty window called STARTUP
Find the Zotero tab creation file on a other window:
Disk C> program Files (x86)> zotero> extension> zoteroWinWordIntegration@zotero.org> Install> Zotero.dotm
COPY this file and do not move it !!!!!!
Paste the Zotero.dotm file into the Word STARTUP window
Close all the windows and the word document
Open word and it works

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No. You can access on your computer without registration. But the registration will give you a cloud backup for all the references and multiple access to different computers.

Zotero is an open-access tool for anyone. You can use either university email or personal email.

You can import through file uploads, Identify (on the menu bar) or getting metadata from the library databases.

Zotero strongly recommends regularly and frequently backing up your library, ideally using an automatic backup utility to back up your hard drive to an external device. It is also possible to back up Zotero data by doing the following:
– Locate your Zotero data.
– Close Zotero.
– Copy your entire directory to a backup location, ideally on another storage device.

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