Zotero

This guide is no longer being maintained (Spring 2022). Zotero has excellent help pages available at https://www.zotero.org/support/. 

Please also feel free to contact Library_Reference@stonybrook.edu with any questions. 

Zotero is a free, open source, easy-to-use Firefox add-on (and now works with Chrome and Safari) that helps you to collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in your web browser. Designed to be intuitive and unobtrusive (it looks a lot like an iTunes library), Zotero is a powerful and handy tool for any academic.

Zotero works on all three major operating systems: PC, Mac, and Linux.

Zotero Quick Start Guide: The A, B, C's of "Z"

Zotero is a production of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and is funded by the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Quickly download the Zotero Firefox Add-on:

• Open Firefox
• Click on Tools > Add-ons > Get Add-ons
• Search for the following:
  • 'Zotero' and click the 'Add to Firefox' button or 'Install'
  • 'Zotero WinWord Integration' and click the 'Add to Firefox' button or 'Install'
  • 'Zotero Scholar Citations' and click the 'Add to Firefox' button or 'Install'
  • 'Readability' and click the 'Add to Firefox' button or 'Install'
• Restart Firefox to apply the Add-ons
• Start collecting sources!

Download Zotero and associated plug-ins using these links:

• Firefox:
  Download Firefox to get started with Zotero
• Zotero:
  Download the Zotero add-on for Firefox
• Zotero Word Processor Integration:
  Download the word processor plug-in to cite Zotero items in your Microsoft Word and/or OpenOffice documents
• Zotero Scholar Citations:
  Download Zotero Scholar Citations to retrieve metadata for your PDFs using Google Scholar
• Portable Firefox:
  Don't have Firefox? Download Portable Firefox to use Zotero on a flashdrive
• Zotero Mobile Apps:
  iOS and Andriod developers have been hard at work creating apps so that you can get the most out of Zotero on your mobile devices!
• Zotero Bookmarklet:
  The Zotero Bookmarklet is a bookmark you add to your browser to save the page you are reading directly to your Zotero library
• Zotero 3.0 (Standalone):
  For Mac, Windows, and Linux; conncectors for Chrome and Safari
• Readability:
  This free add-on makes sites Zotero-friendly (if they aren't already)
• Qnotero:
  This free program lives in your system tray and offers you quick and easy access your Zotero PDFs and references
   
• Follow @Zotero on Twitter

Some content of this guide: "Zotero LibGuide" by Marie Sciangula, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License.