How To Use Zotero 2024 (Including Zotero Connector) - Full Tutorial With Examples

Learn how to use the Zotero reference manager and Zotero connector. In this detailed tutorial, we’ll show you everything you need to get started with Zotero, using plain language and loads of examples.

OVERVIEW: How to use Zotero

00:00 Intro
00:24 Structure of Zotero tutorial
01:22 What is Zotero?
01:52 Benefits of using Zotero
02:12 Zotero free and paid options
02:25 Zotero vs Mendeley
02:41 How to install Zotero
03:20 Installing the Zotero connector
03:50 Getting a free Zotero account
04:34 The Zotero interface (overview)
06:21 How to use Zotero
06:32 Synchronizing your account
06:56 Adding reference data to Zotero
07:20 Manual entry
09:20 Uploading or linking a PDF article
10:38 Using an identifier (DOI, ISBN, PMID, etc.)
11:34 Use the Zotero Connector
12:19 Importing reference data from another program (RIS, BibTex, etc.)
12:39 How to manage your Zotero library
13:03 Collections
13:55 My publications
14:02 Duplicate items
14:13 Unfiled Items
14:20 Tags
14:48 Zotero search
15:13 Using a literature catalogue
16:03 Editing resources
16:25 Notes
17:00 Related resources
17:34 Zotero PDF viewer
18:20 How to use Zotero within a word processor
18:50 The Zotero menu
19:15 How to add in-text citations
20:22 How to show a list of citations in the Zotero bar
20:46 How to create a reference list (bibliography)
21:30 Setting line spacing for the reference list
21:50 Changing the referencing settings
22:05 Using different styles
22:28 Refreshing your reference list
22:56 Unlinking your references from Zotero
23:49 More resources for Zotero

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[davidolatunji]

This video should be required watching for students that are doing research for the first time.

[EricPomert]

Beautifully done! One of my tips for the END of the process. Make a final copy that preserves the reference list citations links to Zotero, maybe with "links" in the filename. Then duplicate that file and remove the links for submission and sharing. No work lost!

[nikkijardinehail]

Finally an easy to follow, clear and thorough GO TO lesson to get across Zotero! So grateful! Up to now I was pulling my hair out and going in circles. Now I feel way more confident. Thank you so much.

[GamingShiiep]

I'm in the last semester of my masters and have not a single time used a reference manager. I absolutely wish I had. I'm currently using zotero for my master's thesis and suddenly it's much more fun.

[mvuhezc]

Your tutorial on use of zotero is comprehensive and clear, thanks ❤❤

[LouiseLanoy]

Yes a video on how to use Zotero with Microsoft Word would be very useful for me. Thank you for this excellent video. I did download the Literature Review Catalogue Template. I look forward to more videos.

[kagisohawthorne]

oh my guness, this was helpful. I've probably watched over 5 videos and would stop midway coz they were either boring or i could not understand a word. this one was super dooper easy to understand and very easy to follow. thank u so much and instant follower.

[ejiromovoria]

Thank you, I already use zotero but there are so many features i was unaware of before now.

[beverlybinaldo]

Thank you for your comprehensive explanation of zotero features and the procedures how to use it. God bless!😊

[PritaNurastuti]

This is really helpful!!! I was lost in a jungle, now I found a guidance to civilization!! Thank you!!!

[Heycoachwalker]

This was extremely helpful! I almost fell out of my chair with the word bibliography!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I wish I had found you earlier but now is just as good. A must for a doctoral journey!

[sallylbond]

Very helpful! We are required to use a template that's been formatted in Word for dissertations and theses. So it would be helpful to have a tutorial about how to use Zotero with MS Word. Thank you!

[coturnixc.]

Thank you for the detailed, easy to understand explanation!

You even had the young Homelander appear at 7:10 in the video! 😁

[sirsnakeson]

this is absolutely amazing. Before watching your video, i thought that zotero is just an app to store and quickly paste citations. While that is true, i didn't realize how powerful zotero can be. Thank you for making this video

[nuwanda]

One think Zotero misses, is relation visualization. Ot would be nice if you could see the “father” articles and the “child” articles without having to use some external web-program like litmaps. Litmaps is usefull for finding articles to read, but sometimes I want just to see the evolution of an argument in the literature I have allready. So is I have three articles (A, B and C, and for example B is citing A and is cited by C) it would be nice to see the relation between them (so in the C’s relation tab I see A as a “father” article and c as a “child” article). I hope it is clear

[chuksebinum]

God Bless you GradCoach.
Please don't stop the good work

[frankkwekumonney]

I really love your tutorials, very simple and straight forward

[lzgvzeb]

Hello Dear GradCoach. Thank you very much. WE ALL REALLY APPRECIATE THIS. Could you please do a tutorial specifically for Microsoft Word? Thank you very much in advance.

[Mikey-Likes-I.T]

I would love to see an update for Zotero so that when you get feedback and have to work on something like an academic dissertation multiple times, it could relink itself so that you do not have to keep a master copy of the paper so that all of your citations can sync up again. It is no fun having to go through the list every time to keep them in alphabetical order for APA, but that is just nitpicking, as this looks like it will help out a bunch.

[brigittemensah]

Great presentation. Thank you so much for making this video. I have been using Zotero for over a year now but after watching your video, I am now able to maximize this app. Thanks again!