For plugins for LibreOffice or Google Docs, see Word Processor Plugins. Zotero Plugin Tab Installing the Zotero Word plugin adds a Zotero tab to Microsoft Word. Zotero and Microsoft Word (2:55) - Shows you how to use the Zotero plugin with MS Word to create footnotes, endnotes, in-text citations, and bibliographies. There is also a helpful User Guide for the word processsor plugin. Additional videos can be viewed at the Zotero Screencast Tutorials page.
Developer(s) | Center for History and New Media at George Mason University |
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Initial release | October 5, 2006; 12 years ago[1] |
Stable release | 5.0.74 (August 21, 2019; 21 days ago[2])[±] |
Repository | |
Written in | JavaScript with SQLite backend |
Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux[3] |
Type | Reference management |
License | AGPL[4] |
Website | www.zotero.org |
Zotero/zoʊˈtɛroʊ/ is a free and open-sourcereference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials (such as PDF files). Notable features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies, as well as integration with the word processors Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, and Google Docs. It is produced by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
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Etymology[edit]
The name 'Zotero' is loosely derived from the Albanian verb zotëroj, meaning 'to master'.[5]
Features[edit]
Zotero shows an icon when a resource (book, article, thesis) is being viewed on many websites (such as library catalogs, PubMed, Google Scholar, Google Books, Amazon.com, Wikipedia, and publishers' websites). Clicking this icon saves the full reference information to the Zotero library. Zotero can also save a copy of the webpage, or, in the case of academic articles, a copy of the full text PDF. Users can then add notes, tags, attachments, and their own metadata.
Items are organized through a drag-and-drop iTunes-like interface, and can be searched.
Selections of the local reference library data can later be exported as formatted bibliographies. Furthermore, all entries including bibliographic information and user-created rich-text memos of the selected articles can be summarized into an HTML report.[6]
![Zotero Zotero](/uploads/1/2/5/7/125733185/242373285.png)
Citation formatting[edit]
Zotero users can generate citations and bibliographies through word processor plugins, or directly in Zotero, using Citation Style Language styles. The house styles of most academic journals are available in Zotero, and the bibliography can be reformatted with a few clicks. Zotero also allows users to create their own customized citation styles.
Zotero can import and export citations from or to many formats, including Wikipedia Citation Templates,[7]BibTeX, BibLateX, RefWorks, MODS, COinS, Citation Style Language/JSON, refer/BibIX, RIS, TEI, several flavours of RDF, Evernote, and EndNote.
Annotation and mobile devices[edit]
Zotero can associate notes with bibliographic items. It can annotate PDFs and synchronize them with a mobile PDF reader through the Zotfile plugin.[8]
Language support[edit]
As of 2014, Zotero supports more than thirty languages.
Online bibliography tool[edit]
Zotero launched the online bibliography tool ZoteroBib in May 2018, where users can generate bibliographies online without installing Zotero or creating a Zotero account.[9]
Product support[edit]
Zotero has no dedicated customer support service, but the Zotero website provides extensive information, including instructional screencasts, troubleshooting tips, a list of known issues, and user forums. Questions and issues raised in the forums are answered quickly, with users and developers suggesting solutions.[10]
![Zotero Zotero](/uploads/1/2/5/7/125733185/417576021.jpg)
Many academic institutions provide Zotero tutorials to their members.
Translators[edit]
Zotero uses 'translators' – short pieces of computer code, or scripts – written by volunteers,[11] to understand the structure of web pages and to parse them into citations using its internal formats.[12] These open-source scripts may be used by third party tools also, for example Wikipedia's 'Citoid' citation generator.[13]
Multilingual fields and transliterations[edit]
A community-driven version of Zotero, Juris-M,[14][15] allows for multilingual citations, and translations and transliterations of citation fields. It also provides additional support for needs of scholars in fields of law. Juris-M is developed by Frank Bennett, who is also one of the developers of the Citation Style Language used by Zotero.
Financial support and awards[edit]
Development of Zotero has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, as well as user donations.
Zotero has won awards from PC Magazine, Northwestern University's CiteFest competition, and the American Political Science Association.[16]
History[edit]
Zotero 1.0[edit]
The first release of Zotero, 1.0.0b2.r1, was made available in October 2006 as an add-on for the Firefox web browser. Development of Zotero 1.0.x continued until May 2009, when Zotero 1.0.10 was released.
EndNote lawsuit[edit]
In 2008, Thomson Reuters sued the Commonwealth of Virginia and George Mason University, based on the claim that Zotero's developers had, in violation of the EndNote EULA, reverse-engineered EndNote and provided Zotero with the ability to convert EndNote's proprietary .ens styles into Citation Style Language (CSL) styles.[17] George Mason University responded that they would not renew their site license for EndNote and that 'anything created by users of Zotero belongs to those users, and that it should be as easy as possible for Zotero users to move to and from the software as they wish, without friction'.[18] The journal Nature editorialized that 'the virtues of interoperability and easy1.0 changelog [Zotero Documentation]'. zotero.org. 12 February 2015.
Further reading[edit]
- Puckett, Jason (2017). Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Educators (2nd. ed.). Chicago: Association for College and Research Libraries. ISBN978-0838989319. OCLC1026921754. Covers both Zotero standalone and the now obsolete (version 4.x) Firefox plugin version, as noted in review: Strothmann, Molly (2018). 'Book Review: Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Educators, 2nd ed'. Reference & User Services Quarterly. 57 (3): 222. doi:10.5860/rusq.57.3. hdl:10133/5200.
External links[edit]
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