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Creative Commons License

This guide has been adapted from a guide created by Jason Puckett and licensed by Georgia State University Library under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

Additional material adapted from a guide is created by Flora Shrode and licensed by Utah State University's Merrill-Cazier 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.

About Zotero

Zotero (pronounced "zoh-TAIR-oh") is a Firefox add-on that collects, manages, and cites research sources. It's easy to use, lives in your web browser, and is free! Zotero lets you:

  • collect and organize citations for different projects
  • create bibliographies
  • insert citations into a Word document
  • attach PDFs, notes, and images to your citations

Zotero Quick Start Guide
For more info see this Zotero Quick Start Guide (also available as a PDF).

Zotero tutorials

Overview of saving citations from the web with Zotero:

More Zotero Screencast Tutorials

Installing Zotero

This video will help you get started. For more details see the next page: Installing Zotero.