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Zotero and ZoteroBib Guide

Introduction

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Looking for free tools to help you accurately cite your sources? Zotero and ZoteroBib can help! Explore this guide to learn about these tools. 

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What's the difference?

  • Zotero is a comprehensive tool to help you store, organize, annotate, and cite your sources. It can even be used with collaborators to all save sources to the same library. It's an excellent tool capable of long term use and integrates with Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and Overleaf.
  • Zoterobib is a quick bibliography generator. Copy and paste your sources into this web tool, choose your citation style, and it'll generate in-text citations and a bibliography. It's straightforward with no extra features and meant for one-time use.

  Zotero ZoteroBib
Best for Research papers, ongoing research, theses, dissertations 1 time bibliographies
Functionality Both desktop and web applications Web application
Able to create bibliographies Copy to clipboard or generate via plug-ins as you write Copy to clipboard
Able to create in-text citations ✅ ✅
Able to create group folders ✅ ❌
Long-term cloud storage ✅ ❌
Software installation ✅ ❌
Learning curve Moderate Slight

Key ✅ Yes
  ❌ No

Attribution

Creative Commons License  Special thanks to Jason Puckett who developed and shared a Zotero guide,
 which is licensed by Georgia State University Library under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License.

This guide changes or edits some of the content of the GSU guide.