1. Zotero for Firefox
Paul Emsley
Subject Librarian
(Music, Art History, Philosophy and Education)
2. This session will cover …
• Zotero – what is it and what can it do?
• Installing Zotero plugin and Zotero Word plugins for
Firefox
• Downloading bibliographic information of books and
journal articles in Zotero
• Creating and editing in-text citations and bibliographies
3. What is Zotero and what does it do?
• Reference/Citation management software
• A Plugin for Firefox (also standalone version)
• Manages references like Endnote
• Allows you to access your library from any internet-
connected computer (except Victoria student domain)
• Downloads bibliographic data from web pages
• Creates in-text citations/footnotes/bibliographies in a
referencing style you choose in MS Word
• More info at http://www.zotero.org/support/
4. Other versions of Zotero
• Mac users can install Zotero plugin for Mac Firefox
• Mac: there are “connectors” for Safari” and Chrome
• Zotero Standalone version: an Windows independent
application – works with Chrome or Safari and their
“connectors”
6. Firefox/Frontmotion installation - 1
On Campus Computers:
• Zotero/Firefox combination only works on staff
domain computers
• ITS need to install Firefox/Frontmotion for you
if it isn’t on the computer
• Zotero needs Firefox (Frontmotion) v24.0 or
newer: ITS will ned to update it for you
7. Firefox/Frontmotion installation - 2
Anyone can install Firefox on personal, laptop
and home computers.
To install:
• Go to http://www.mozilla.org/firefox
• or http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
• Make sure you install the en-US language
version
39. A sample bibliography
Appleby, Joyce. “The American Heritage: The Heirs and the Disinherited.” The Journal of American
History 74.3 (1987): 798–813. JSTOR. Web. 8 May 2013.
Cartwright, William H. The Reinterpretation of American History and Culture. Washington: National
Council for the Social Studies, 1973. Print.
Condit, Carl W. “The First Reinforced-Concrete Skyscraper: The Ingalls Building in Cincinnati and Its
Place in Structural History.” Technology and Culture 9.1 (1968): 1–33. JSTOR. Web. 8 May 2013.
Current, Richard N. American History: a Survey. New York: Knopf, 1961. Print.
DeConde, Alexander. Patterns in American History. 3d ed. Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth Pub. Co, 1973.
Print.
Merk, Frederick. Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History: a Reinterpretation. New York: Vintage
Books, 1966. Print. A Vintage Book V-318.
“Political Theory, History of Political Thought, and Methodology.” The American Political Science Review
62.4 (1968): 1301–1324. JSTOR. Web. 8 May 2013.
Reconstructing American Literary History. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1986. Print.
Harvard English Studies 13.
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-1968. New York: Chelsea
House, 1971. Print.
56. Have fun with Zotero!
• Thank you for your attention
• For further information, view Zotero’s support
page @ http://www.zotero.org/support/
• The slides for this session are at
http://www.slideshare.net/paulwe1/zotero4firefoxhistory
Hinweis der Redaktion
You can view, add and edit your Zotero library from any computer. The contents of your libraries will synchronise at any location.
This is Zotero’s home page.
Click “Register” to create your account.
Click “Register” to create your account.
Zotero icon appears in the bottom right corner of Firefox once it’s downloaded.
Click Zotero icon. Zotero pane appears at the bottom of Firefox.
Log in to see your library.
Click Zotero icon. Zotero pane appears at the bottom of Firefox.
In the left column, your library appears and you can organise your references into folders and sub-folders.
Note the add new folder icon at the top of the column. Click it to create a new folder.
Right-click the folder where you want to create a sub-folder and select the “New Subcollection” option.
In the centre column, you see the items saved in the highlighted folder in the left column.
In the right column, you see the bibliographic information of the item highlighted in the centre column.
When you download Zotero to a new computer, make sure to sync your new library with your other libraries.
To do that, click the action button on Zotero pane. The action button is the gear icon next to the green plus sing button. Select preferences.
Preferences window pops up. Select sync and type in your Zotero username and password, tick “Sync automatically” and close the window. Zotero keeps your username and password and automatically sync whenever you open the pane.
Zotero has a built-in translator that reads web pages and identify bib info. It does not read all web pages, but it reads most library catalogues, google and Amazon. For example, suppose you want to download the bib info of this book in Victoria Library Catalogue.
Zotero automatically downloads the bib info into your library.
Zotero is able to download bib info of multiple items at once. For example, in this results page, a folder icon appears next to the URL.
When you click the folder icon, a window pops up and you can select the items you want to download.
You can find the ISBN search button at the top of Zotero pane. It looks like a pen.
Copy and paste the ISBN you found into the search box. Take out the hyphens before you search.
Note the document icon next to the URL and click to download.
Suppose you want to download this journal article. Most databases give you an option to export citation data to Endnote.
Selectthe “Export directly to Endnote” option. Zotero will download the citation.
One easy way of creating a bibliography is put together references you want to cite into a folder. Highlight the items, right-click and select “create bibliography from selected items”.
Create bibliography window pops up. You can select a referencing style you like and select an output format. If you choose copy to clipboard, you can paste the bibliography in any document such as Word and email.
This is an example of a bibliography in the APA style. You can edit the bibliography without leaving the document.
Click “Add-Ins” to find Zotero buttons
For example, in Word 2007, Zoteroplugin looks like this. Click the “Add-ins” tab in Word. You’ll find these buttons.
To insert a citation into MS Word, click the LH button.
Zotero inserts the citation automatically.
Click the ‘Show Editor’ button.
You can keep adding in-text citations to your document.
Click the third button at the end of the document.
Zotero automatically creates a bibliography of references cited in your document.
