This title includes a short overview of citation management tools and provides an introduction to Zotero. We will focus on producing more efficient and effective bibliographies.
Learning Objectives
- Features of Zotero
- Learn to capture citation/bibliographic information
- Learn to use folders and tags to organize a library
- Use word processing programs to reformat in-text citations and bibliographies
- Use a wide variety of style formats such as APA or Chicago
- Become familiar with the Microsoft Word plugin
- Learn to use the sync feature to access citations on multiple computers
- Learn to import and export citations into Zotero
Prerequisite Skills
- Use a text editor or word processor