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BIOS 297: Entomology

A guide to resources for BIOS 297: Entomology, Fall 2025

Zotero and ZoteroBib

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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

ZoteroBib Demo

Gif of a demo using Zoterobib to create a bibliography from a New York Times news article

The demo goes through these steps:

  1. Navigate to zbib.org
  2. Copy and paste the link, DOI, ISBN or other identifier from your source into the box on zbib.org and click 'Cite'. Add as many items as you would like to create a bibliography of all of your sources.
  3. Under Bibliography, choose your citation style. The default is APA 7th edition and was kept for the demo.
  4. Click Copy to Clipboard and then paste into your document. 

Help with using ZoteroBib