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 Quick Start Guide
• Get Help with Zotero
• Zotero FAQs
• Compatible Databases
• Citation Styles
• User Forums

These screencast tutorials provide a nice overview of Zotero, courtesy of zotero.org

• Tour of Zotero
• Quick Bibliographic Demo
• Getting Stuff into Zotero
• Import Resources from RefWorks into Zotero
• Retrieving Metadata from PDFs
• Full list of all Zotero screencast tutorials

Articles

Croxall, Brian. "Zotero vs. EndNote." ProfHacker 3 May 2011. Web.

Fitzpatrick, Jason. "How to Clip, Sort, and Cite the Entire Web with Zotero." LifeHacker 3 Feb 2010. Web.

Mullen, Lincoln. "Taking Better Notes in Zotero." ProfHacker. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 10 Oct. 2011. Web.

Niemann, Michael. "How to Create Bibliographies with Zotero." MacLife 7 Mar 2011. Web.

Puckett, Jason. "Superpower Your Browser with LibX and Zotero." College & Research Libraries News 71.2 (2010): 70 -97. Print.

Sample, Mark. "Taking Zotero out of the Browser with the Zotero Standalone Beta." ProfHacker. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 29 August 2011. Web.

Sample, Mark. "Your Zotero Library on Your Android Phone with Zandy." ProfHacker. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 4 Oct. 2011. Web.

Sample, Mark. "Zotero Roundup: Zotero 3.0 and ZotPad for the iPad." ProfHacker. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 9 Feb. 2012. Web.

Sample, Mark. "ZotFile Awesomifies Zotero Attachments." ProfHacker. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 18 Oct. 2011. Web.

Williams, George. "Teaching with Zotero Groups." ProfHacker. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 11 Aug. 2009. Web.

Note: This list was generated with Zotero by dragging and dropping (Quick Copy function) the selected resources into the text editor of this box.

Getting Stuff Into Zotero:

Getting Stuff Into Zotero from zotero on Vimeo.

Manually Adding Items to Zotero:

Manually Adding Items to Zotero from zotero on Vimeo.

Sorting Through Your Zotero Library:

Sorting through your Zotero library from zotero on Vimeo.