How To Use Zotero 2024 (Including Zotero Connector)

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

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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
Essential Links:
FREE DOWNLOAD: Literature catalogue spreadsheet - gradcoach.com/literature-revi...
Companion Post: gradcoach.com/how-to-use-zotero/
Zotero desktop and connector download page:www.zotero.org/download/
Zotero post-installation page: www.zotero.org/start
APA formatting explainer - gradcoach.com/apa-7-formatting/
APA template - gradcoach.com/apa-7-template/
MLA formatting explainer - gradcoach.com/mla-formatting/
MLA template - gradcoach.com/mla-9-template/
To learn more about how to use Zotero, referencing and academic writing in general, be sure to check out the Grad Coach blog at gradcoach.com/blog/.
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@GradCoach 2 ай бұрын

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@davidolatunji5110 4 ай бұрын

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

@davidpeacock4632 2 ай бұрын

I've been a researcher for over 30 years and have written nearly 100 papers... this video was really helpful for me too! I am being forced to publish in a journal that uses the awful numbered reference format and numbering it manually was not an option, so I finally had to come to grips with referencing software. This video led me through it nicely. Using it confirms my view that such software really isn't worth the effort because it throws in way too many errors, and it's quicker and more accurate to just do it manually. It's easy to spot when someone uses such software as EndNote because of all the mistakes. Lesson re-learnt.... never publish in a journal that uses numbered references. It's a dumb format and writing this paper has been a uniquely unpleasant experience.

@nikkijardinehail5716 2 ай бұрын

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.

@kagisohawthorne5313 5 ай бұрын

oh my guness, this was soooooooooo 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.

@ejiromovoria2969 7 ай бұрын

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

@frankkwekumonney8155 8 ай бұрын

I really love your tutorials, very simple and straight forward

@suehsieh1952 9 ай бұрын

This is very helpful. Thank you Derek! Shout out from SA 😀

@user-mv4uh2ez6c 8 ай бұрын

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

@GradCoach 8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@sirsnakeson3599 4 ай бұрын

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

@brigittemensah5696 8 ай бұрын

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!

@GradCoach 8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@bekkiman7359 6 ай бұрын

Your tutorials are priceless, Thanks, man.

@lorijeancastine4971 6 ай бұрын

Finally, I now know how to use Zotero! Thank you so much!

@Alaaja793 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Derek for the valuable tutorial about Zotero, it really helped me

@falayegideonolufemi5306 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. I finally got the information and knowledge I have been seeking. You just made my day.

@chuksebinum8385 2 ай бұрын

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

@user-sk3yi3kx5i 6 ай бұрын

Great presentation,dear brother it helped me a lot. Thank you very much! Keep it up!

@Annacstt 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for so many valuable information!

@PritaNurastuti Ай бұрын

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

@ajadisodiq3991 3 ай бұрын

OMG Why am I just seeing these resources? This is super helpful. Thanks a lot.

@coturnixc.3390 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the detailed, easy to understand explanation! You even had the young Homelander appear at 7:10 in the video! 😁

@beverlybinaldo1696 4 ай бұрын

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

@GradCoach 4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@fortunetiberur6604 9 ай бұрын

splendid tutorial that doesn't fails to hammer nail to the head the how question

@VivianEBurns 6 ай бұрын

I was not aware of the software. Thank you for your valuable information needed for Graduate School.

@Heycoachwalker 2 ай бұрын

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!

@GradCoach 2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@GamingShiiep 3 ай бұрын

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.

@mweemkat1765 4 ай бұрын

Hi thank you for the comprehensive tutorial!!! i was looking for an alternative reference manager after endnote crushed twice!!! I will be using Zotero from now on

@noufalkk6709 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video, as a beginner in the research area, I need to familiarise myself with this application. Your presentation helps me to move forward.

@GradCoach 5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@daniellen_lins 7 ай бұрын

Very useful video. Thanks a lot!

@PabloOjeda1952 6 ай бұрын

Excellent presentation and greetings from Caracas-Venezuela

@conniehemmings3170 7 ай бұрын

this was so helpful and well-explained, thanks so much!!

@GradCoach 7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@Jeffery686 4 ай бұрын

Wow, much valued video, enriching. Got many new ideas, I recomend all to listen. You will learn a lot and your time will never go waste. Thank you for sharing.

@Fantasticlips24 3 ай бұрын

Very informative, indeed. Thanks a million Grad

@Sreeja196 5 ай бұрын

This is gold. Thank you very much!

@EhsanulKarim-dn9fb 9 ай бұрын

very informative and useful. Thank you!

@GradCoach 9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@rahatullah4232 9 ай бұрын

Amazing Tutorial

@LouiseLanoy 12 күн бұрын

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.

@GradCoach 11 күн бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@user-vw3fg6lc6x 5 ай бұрын

Thank you sir. it was informative and my self i felt comfortable with Zotero and for beginner this was very use full to me

@GradCoach 4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that

@user-kj8xr5kk9m 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the insight! It was clear and easy to follow.

@GradCoach 5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@zakirullah9692 8 ай бұрын

Great! Appreciate your work

@GradCoach 8 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!

@aminvahdati9476 3 күн бұрын

Great demonstration, Thank you

@OKibera7242 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the helpful tips on Zotero.

@GradCoach 5 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

@IphegeniaRose 5 күн бұрын

Extremely helpful. Thank you 🙂

@harounshiundu-dn4eu 3 ай бұрын

Great great great presentation. This has helped me alot. Thank you

@joanacardoso2095 Ай бұрын

Very useful, i am starting my master dissertation and this was very easy to follow.

@GradCoach Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@nuwanda923 9 ай бұрын

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

@MrEmBerna 3 ай бұрын

Can't you do this with "tags" or "related" sources?

@Aroma709 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the excellent presentation.

@GradCoach 7 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

@hoseinkazemiyazdi878 8 ай бұрын

Very helpful, Thanks a lot. I got completely confused before watching the video.

@GradCoach 8 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@joywalker1592 4 ай бұрын

Extremely helpful video. Thank you!

@GradCoach 4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@roidesaba 6 ай бұрын

Awesome! Very useful piece! Thank you.

@GradCoach 6 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

@courtneyhutchinson9684 4 ай бұрын

This was incredibly helpful, thank you so much.

@GradCoach 4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@ifeomaumeh7392 4 ай бұрын

Thank you. You are a great tutor

@user-nc1tn3uc6z Ай бұрын

Tons of value. Thank you for sharing

@GradCoach Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@PiaCanalZarate-it6iq 5 күн бұрын

Thanks for the info !!! super useful video.

@phildi9700 5 ай бұрын

Hello, Derek. Thanks for this video.

@GradCoach 4 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@anthro23 5 ай бұрын

Information is very helpful for me. Thankyou

@GradCoach 4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that

@itipillai 2 ай бұрын

very nicely explained

@robertoalonso3078 6 ай бұрын

really helpful, thank you

@user-kh9lm5xo3v 7 ай бұрын

honestly great video

@flori2611 5 ай бұрын

veryyy helpful thank you so much !

@luisdominguez2087 3 ай бұрын

Very helpful thanks.

@tenaalamirew9216 9 ай бұрын

Very helpful

@GradCoach 9 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that

@naschendani1474 3 ай бұрын

thank you! it helps me a lot

@asnakewassie6580 8 ай бұрын

so great thanks for your gift sharing

@GradCoach 8 ай бұрын

You are so welcome

@johndavid7836 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, Sir

@GradCoach 9 ай бұрын

You are welcome

@terryallen4970 6 ай бұрын

Nice job! You may also want to mention that unlinking is necessary when required to hyperlink resources. Towards the beginning, you do say Mendeley vs. Zotero..

@tapashisaha9043 4 ай бұрын

Simple and very helpful

@GradCoach 4 ай бұрын

Glad it helped

@Mikey-Likes-I.T 7 күн бұрын

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.

@user-gk9ds6vk1f 4 ай бұрын

This tutorial is beautiful, and I await how to use Zotero with MS Word. thank you

@user-tp7bv3if3k 6 ай бұрын

thank you !! it was a great tutorial

@GradCoach 6 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@dacianacrabbe4703 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!🎉

@GradCoach Ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@muhammadiqbal5071 3 ай бұрын

thank you its quiet helpful

@stevenedwards2532 8 ай бұрын

Great video. I have found your videos very straightforward and clear with enough information to help me gain a level of competence with what you are discussing. Thank you. I am a PhD student trying to decide between Mendeley and Zotero. I've set up my Mendeley account and found it to be a bit glitchy in terms of actually being able to pull metadata and PDFs using the Mendeley Web Importer. While I like the look and feel of Mendeley, this has posed a bit of a challenge for me. I'm not sure how good a job Zotero does in gathering metadata and grabbing PDFs - how does Zotero compare to Mendeley in this regard? Also, I have a concern that if I have both Mendeley and Zotero installed simultaneously on my computer I may run into issues, especially if I have both Microsoft Word plugins installed. Any input about whether I should only use one app at a time? I've watched KZfaq videos made by people who strongly encourage Zotero and other videos by those who like Mendeley better. Do you have a personal preference between the two? Why would you use one over the other? By the way, I think a video on how to use Zotero in Microsoft Word would be useful. Thanks again for an excellent video!

@AntheanCeilliers 7 ай бұрын

From the other grad students I've spoken to, Mendeley used to be highly recommended until it was bought out by another company which is when all of the difficulties with pulling metadata came into play. They swear by Zotero now and say it's much easier specifically for the PDF issue you brought up. I haven't used Mendeley myself but a few trusted friends now recommend against it.

@user-jp6xb6ju2k 7 ай бұрын

thank you

@achmadsulfikar 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! I moved from Mendeley to Zotero

@engbhatt3709 7 ай бұрын

very good tutorials

@GradCoach 7 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@cephaskimberly 9 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy 😊

@cephaskimberly 9 ай бұрын

You saved my day with research, however when I use Mendeley with Ms word 2013, it doesn't appear on the reference tab

@GradCoach 9 ай бұрын

Best to engage with the Mendeley Support Center - service.elsevier.com/app/home/supporthub/mendeley/

@nolanqin 3 ай бұрын

Thx you ❤

@abhipatel1404 Ай бұрын

so helful video ....thank you so much

@GradCoach Ай бұрын

You are most welcome

@sudhanshubajpai1916 4 ай бұрын

Good job bro

@asmaarebai1846 4 ай бұрын

THANK YOUUUUU

@PamelaSanchez-zd8dq 4 ай бұрын

Thank you😍

@GradCoach 4 ай бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@PamelaSanchez-zd8dq 4 ай бұрын

Good job bro 🐶

@rvillal11 8 ай бұрын

me salvaste la vida, grax xoxoxo

@GradCoach 8 ай бұрын

@mayavenkatachalam7783 6 ай бұрын

thank you!!!!!!

@Austino-Technology-Ltd Ай бұрын

Thank you please produce a tutorial on MS word .... Secondly with this automated import, are the citations and references in an author's document also imported or just those of authors of the first hand document

@johan0952 9 ай бұрын

yes, please do a tutorial for using zotero with word. Thanks!

@GradCoach 9 ай бұрын

Noted!

@user-ih1tc8hb4t 5 ай бұрын

Great video

@GradCoach 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ilyas7867 3 ай бұрын

Salute!

@DarshniK-lh9up Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot

@GradCoach Ай бұрын

Most welcome

@ainulhaezahnoruzman817 2 ай бұрын

Thank You

@GradCoach 2 ай бұрын

You're welcome

@user-du6dj9wy6w 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! It is really helpful! I have a question: How do we add Zotero option to word? If I open one of my documents, I cannot see Zotero up in my document, and therefore, I cannot operate with Zotero in my word to add references or create a reference list. Thank you so much! Really appreciate for your videos and your help.

@GradCoach 9 ай бұрын

You're welcome. Here's the relevant link - www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_integration

@user-lz2gv4ze5b 2 ай бұрын

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.

@MrEmBerna 3 ай бұрын

Your videos I've watched so far are great and extremely helpful, thank you so much!! However, you mention Mendeley in this video about Zotero, but you don't do the reverse in the video about Mendeley. Without having a clear picture of what is "the bit more" that Mendeley offers, this is _interesting_ to say the least.

@UlKhley Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your valued sharing. I have one question, how to deal with an unrecognized author once we upload it into the Zotero?

@daunkauffman 6 ай бұрын

Is there an easy way to add items to a Reference list which are not traditional Journal articles? Maybe add in by hand? Maybe save to another Word Processor after composing the initial list? But all the numbers need to change for other citation items in the same list if additional items are inserted . ..

@krishsoman7742 5 ай бұрын

Great presentation. Would you please share the link for the zotero excel spreadsheet please?

@lanreolode 29 күн бұрын

thank you for the tutorial. i am having problem with the citation on the windows because the zotero icon is not displayed on the microsoft word. please anyway out?

@kuberlohakare917 6 ай бұрын

Is there any option that links in-text citation with the exact place of full citation in bibliography? and thanks for the video

@daunkauffman 6 ай бұрын

Do you have any materials which compare and contrast the benefits (and glitches) of Zotero and Mendeley?

@daunkauffman 6 ай бұрын

Are there variations in any reference tools which allow for differences in style formats at different levels of complexity, or must the extra levels be adjusted "by hand"? I am thinking specifically of Vancouver (and others) which are organized around the order of appearance in the document, not around an alpha organization? The issue seems even more complex for Vancouver because there is a sub level of organization (within a set of citations in the same paren) which is first, "order of appearance", but then if there are multiple citations within that same paren, which are first appearing at that same point -- are indeed alpha organized within that paren. Does this make sense?