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Zotero 7 Basic course

1. Introduction

With Zotero you can:

  • Maintain a database ("My Library") of literature references.
  • Import references from bibliographic databases, reproduce references from PDFs or enter them yourself.
  • Link PDFs or other documents to the references and annotate PDFs.
  • Import references from your Zotero library in your own text and choose the layout according to a certain style like Vancouver, Chicago, MLA, APA etc.
  • Sync and share (groups or) libraries with colleagues.

How to get hold of the software?
On the Radboud supported workstations you can use Zotero for free. You can install it via Windows Start » All Programs » Software Center
For private devices, you can download Zotero for free from: https://www.zotero.org/

Extra:

  • Radboudumc employees can't install Zotero via their Radboudumc account.

Zotero is available for Windows, MacIntosh, Linux and IOS.
In this module Version 7 for Windows is discussed.

In this module we often use the menu options at the top of the program.