What is Zotero?
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
Take a look at what you can do with Zotero:
- Create and manage citations of books, articles, videos, etc.
- Import citations from databases and the WU Catalog
- Add searchable notes and tags to citations; attach pdf's if desired
- Quickly create a bibliography in multiple formats (MLA, Chicago, APA...)
- Automatically manage in-text citations in Microsoft Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice
- Easily share references with others
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Getting Started with Zotero
- If you have Firefox, install Zotero from zotero.org site. [Can I still use Zotero if I can't install Firefox?]
- Sign up for an account and validate your email address.
- Set Preferences in Zotero by clicking on gear icon
- Sync your Zotero account to your desktop Zotero; use Sync tab and enter your Zotero account username and password.
- To enable WU Get it! functions, add the following OpenURL on the "Advanced" tab of Preferences: http://je5qh2yg7p.search.serialssolutions.com/
- Important note: If you leave WU, you need to manually delete the libproxy.wustl.edu entry from the Proxies tab under Preferences. Otherwise some resources will ask for WU login after you no longer have a WU login.
- Add citations to Zotero
- Create bibliographies
- Organize your research
- Share and collaborate
Consultations and Workshops
For a one-on-one consultation send a message to:
wu-libcite@wumail.wustl.edu
Upcoming workshops:
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