| What is an output style? An output style is a template file that tells Zotero how to format the citations, footnotes and reference list in your document. Some hundreds of output styles are included in the Zotero program. Included are well known styles such as APA, MLA, Vancouver, Chicago but also output styles which are specific for one journal. For instance: When referring according to the norms of the APA, the Author/Date method in the text is used, e.g. “… (Zhao, 2002)”, and a complete listing of sources in a reference list at the end of a text. The Zotero output style APA 7th manages both features. |
More info about the output-styles is available in the Zotero desktop program under Edit - Settings - Cite.
We will now provide a text with references formatted according to the APA 7th ed. Style.
Open a Word document.
Click on the Zotero tab in Microsoft Word and then on 
and select the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition style in the window and click OK:
In the next text we are going to add references in two places.
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Journal impact factors vary from year to year. Therefore it is more reliable to use impact factors of several years instead of just one year. Research has shown that review articles receive more citations than research articles. Journals with many review articles can therefore get more easily a high impact factor than journals with many research articles. Recently a discussion has started about the use of impact factors in research evaluation because the Internet has led to new forms of publication. |
We add the first reference at the end of the third sentence in the text.
We place the cursor before the full stop and after a space. We want to add a reference from Moed en Van Leeuwen from 1995 and that is why we search for Moed.
Click the last reference and it will be added to the bar.
After that click on the arrow on the right. Now the reference is added to the document.
It looks like this:
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Journal impact factors vary from year to year. Therefore it is more reliable to use impact factors of several years instead of just one year. Research has shown that review articles receive more citations than research articles (Moed & Van Leeuwen, 1995). Journals with many review articles can therefore get more easily a high impact factor than journals with many research articles. Recently a discussion has started about the use of impact factors in research evaluation because the Internet has led to new forms of publication.
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Click in the 
to create a bibliography at the end of the text;
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Journal impact factors vary from year to year. Therefore it is more reliable to use impact factors of several years instead of just one year. Research has shown that review articles receive more citations than research articles (Moed & Van Leeuwen, 1995). Journals with many review articles can therefore get more easily a high impact factor than journals with many research articles. Recently a discussion has started about the use of impact factors in research evaluation because the Internet has led to new forms of publication.
Moed, H. F., & Van Leeuwen, Th. N. (1995). Improving the accuracy of institute for scientific information’s journal impact factors. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46(6), 461–467. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199507)46:6<461::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-G |
At the end of the last sentence of this text we add another two references. Place the cursor there.
In Microsoft Word click on
First delete the reference in the seach bar by Backspace. Search now for two references from Moed and Zhao and select them
Click on the arrow on the right and the references will be added to the text and appear in the bibliography
After that the document looks like this:
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Journal impact factors vary from year to year. Therefore it is more reliable to use impact factors of several years instead of just one year. Research has shown that review articles receive more citations than research articles (Moed & Van Leeuwen, 1995). Journals with many review articles can therefore get more easily a high impact factor than journals with many research articles. Recently a discussion has started about the use of impact factors in research evaluation because the Internet has led to new forms of publication.(Moed, 2009; Zhao, 2005)
Moed, H. F. (2009). New developments in the use of citation analysis in research evaluation. Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis, 57(1), 13–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00005-009-0001-5 Moed, H. F., & Van Leeuwen, Th. N. (1995). Improving the accuracy of institute for scientific information’s journal impact factors. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46(6), 461–467. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199507)46:6<461::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-G Zhao, D. (2005). Challenges of scholarly publications on the Web to the evaluation of science—A comparison of author visibility on the Web and in print journals. Information Processing & Management, 41(6), 1403–1418. https:// |
