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Manage your research and create bibliographies with Zotero.
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Research Desk, Davis Family Library
802.443.5496
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,
Chinese
,
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,
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,
How to
,
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,
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,
Writing, Citing, and Research
Collections
About
Collections are folders in your Zotero library.
Collections can help you organize sources by project or by topic.
An item can live in multiple folders.
Items removed from a collection will still be available in your Zotero library.
Instructions
To create a new collection, click the
New Collection
icon (looks like a folder with a plus sign).
Click and drag items in your library into collections.
You can also create sub-collections by right clicking on a particular collection.
Tags
About
Tags are descriptors you can apply to individual items.
Tags are useful when searching for items.
Tags may be used instead of, or in addition to, Collections.
Sometimes, tags will be downloaded automatically when you save a source.
Instructions
Click on an item.
From the
right panel
, click
Tags.
Click
Add.
Write in your tag and hit return.
TIP: use words that are not in the title of the article in your tags!
Take Notes
About
You can take notes in Zotero.
Each note will be associated with a specific item/source. This can make it easier to keep track of the source of quotes, notes, and summaries.
Notes are searchable.
You can have multiple notes associated with a single item.
Instructions
Click on an item.
In the
right panel
(or lower panel in stacked mode), click
Notes
.
Click "Add" to start a new note.
Take your notes.
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