ZoteroA new tool for AWHONN

August 2011

What is Zotero?Zotero:

Is a free, easy-to-use citation manager Helps collect, cite, and share research sources Lives in the Mozilla Firefox web browser

Benefits of Zotero Easy to archive and retrieve citations and abstracts from

the web Can attach full text or PDF to citation Efficient way to insert citations and reference list Allows users to share citations, libraries and archive

webpages among staff and external groups

Where to start Sanjeev has created a public, closed AWHONN group for REP

and select staff

To begin, read the PDF Quick Start Guide and Demo

Open the Mozilla Firefox Browser

Click on the zotero icon in the bottom right corner of your browser window

Open the zotero pane

zotero pane

How to use Example: Late Preterm Infant article search Visit Pubmed Enter your search criteria Zotero will ‘sense’ when you are looking at an item A zotero icon will appear in the location bar (near the URL):

o For multiple items, a folder icono For a single item, a book icon

Zotero ‘senses’ multiple items

Zotero ‘senses’ a single item

Saving the citation Click on the folder or book icon

Item(s) are saved to the Group Library: AWHONN

A message will inform you the item(s) are being saved

You can see saved items in the middle column of the zotero pane

Three columns in zotero pane

Left column: Contains the full library (“My Library) and subcollections AWHONN staff should save to AWHONN Group Library

Middle column: Shows results for articles in a collection

Right column: Displays tabs with information on specific article: citation, notes, tags

Zotero pane icons

Please turn your attention to the Mozilla Firefox browser

Insert Citations Open Microsoft Word Zotero has a toolbar for inserting citations In MS 2010 go to the Add-Ins tab to install Please use APA 6th Edition for Citation Style Use the ‘Zotero insert Citation’ icon to insert citations in-text

Use the ‘Zotero insert Bibliography’ icon to insert reference list

To insert citation, select multiple sources Use green arrow to insert citations Click Ok Must insert in-text citations before Zotero will create a reference

list

Edit Citations Use icon to edit citations

Use icon to edit bibliography

Use ‘Zotero refresh’ icon to update your references in the Zotero collection

Use icon to open document preferences to change bibliographic style

Updates & Sync Zotero

Sanjeev will update Mozilla Firefox Staff update their own Zotero updates/add-ons/plug-ins Synchronization allows the researcher to automatically upload a

copy of the library to the Zotero server onlineo All AWHONN users can assess the group library from

headquarters or home

External Groups Advisory panels, Evidence-Based guideline reviewers, other

AWHONN writers may be added as subgroups

Sanjeev will create subgroups

Please follow Zotero policy and procedure in regard to using subgroups

Questions?

We will all learn more about Zotero together