Zotero Guide

What is Zotero?

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

A video tutorial on installing and using Zotero, is available on our Videos and Tutorials page.

Why use Zotero?

• Free (up to 300 MB of storage)
• Add in-text citations as you write an essay, with just a click
• Very fast and very accurate bibliography creation
• Great way to organize all the resources you are finding for different essays / projects
• Create citations from PDFs

How do you get started?

1. Download and install Zotero.
2. Install the Zotero connector for your Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera).
3. Register for a free account on the Zotero website.
4. Sync your account (login to your "desktop" version of Zotero, with the credentials you created on the Zotero website).
5. Start adding citations!