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Citing Sources

This guide contains information on how to cite sources in a variety of styles.

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.

Get Zotero

Unlimited Storage

Thanks to JMU Libraries funding, you have access to unlimited storage in Zotero for PDFs, citations, and annotations.

To access the unlimited storage,

  • Sign up for a Zotero account with your JMU email address
  • Make sure you are running at least Zotero 6. (As of spring 2025, the current version of Zotero is Zotero 7.) You can upgrade from within Zotero by going to Help → “Check for Updates.”

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