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Zotero allows you to collect, save, and manage bibliographic information on books, articles, websites, and more. Once you've got Zotero working, you can use it to create in-text citations and bibliographies in over 7,000 styles with the click of a button. Zotero works directly with Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice, or you can just export a bibliography to Pages or any other word processing program.

Zotero is available for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and iPadOS. If you're on a Chomebook you can use zBib instead. It's browser-based and should work anywhere.

In addition to Zotero itself, you will need the Zotero connector for whichever browser you use. Connectors are available for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. Note that at this time the connector for Safari isn't working, and it may be difficult to use Zotero with Safari.

When you visit a page that Zotero recognizes as a bibliographic item, such as an item in a library database, an icon will appear in your browser's toolbar. The appearance of the icon depends on the type of resource being viewed, with the most common being the book icon and the lined page icon representing a journal article. Some of these are very difficult to see.

If you're on a web page that Zotero can't identify as a particular type, you'll see a generic page icon. Clicking on this will add a basic entry (often just the URL and the date accessed) for the page to your Zotero library, along with a snapshot of the page.

Zotero does far more than is described in this brief summary. Abundant documentation is available at the Zotero website. This includes a number of screencast tutorials and information on how to:

• organize your Zotero library using folders and tags
• integrate Zotero with your word processing software
• search within your library
• add notes and attachments to your references