Research Guides: Occupational Therapy: Zotero: How to Organize Large Research Projects

Zotero

A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

Quick Start Guide
Create a Collection for your project
How to Add Items to Zotero
Connecting Zotero citations to your documents
Sharing via Zotero Groups
Zotero Mobile (iPhone/iPad/Android)

What is Zotero?

Zotero is a free citation management tool that will help you to save and organize sources, create citations in a wide variety of formats, and share sources with others in a group. Zotero connects easily with Microsoft Word and Google Docs so you can insert citations directly in your text and automatically generate a reference list.

Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research. Sign in through your JMU email, you now have access to unlimited storage. Upgrade to Zotero 6 to see how they’ve created a whole new way of managing PDFs and annotations. You can upgrade to Zotero 6 from within Zotero by going to Help → “Check for Updates.”
Zotero Connector
Browser plug-in that allows you to save sources directly to Zotero from websites and databases.