Alternatively, if you are working in Microsoft Word, you can also click the “Add/Edit Bibliography” button in the Word dashboard. Then, click “Create Bibliography from Item(s),” and a box will pop up with formatting specifications. Once you have your references inputted and want to create citations or a bibliography, you can highlight the reference(s) you wish to export and right click on them. The “Add Item(s) by Identifier” button allows you to quickly add references by their DOI or ISBN numbers Anyone who was shared in that folder could drop a reference in, and it would be viewable to everyone else in the group immediately. In my case, I used these folders to store references when writing the biomaterials review papers because it allowed the co-authors to have access to all the references in our papers. Under the “Group Libraries” tab, this will show all folders that are shared with other people. You can also make subfolders within this tab to organize your different topics or projects. Under the “My Library” tab, this will show everything that you have saved to your computer. So, you have Zotero downloaded, but now what? To start using Zotero, you should first be aware of the different folders that Zotero has. Zotero will do that automatically for you, which can save you a lot of time. In my opinion, one of the best parts of using a citation manager is that if you are using numerical references or footnotes, you don’t have to manually renumber them every time you add or delete a citation. For Microsoft Word, Zotero is great for quickly creating bibliographies and in-text citations. Over the summer, I found it really helpful to have it in my browser because the web plugin can create a citation from any webpage by collecting relevant information such as the author, date, and title of the site. Once you have it downloaded, you can choose to also install it as a plugin to your browser (I recommend using Chrome for this) and also in Microsoft Word. The first step to using Zotero is to download the application online. However, take a look at this previous post on using Mendeley if you want to learn more about that. In this post, I put together a guide for using reference managers, specifically Zotero because I am most familiar with it. I would highly recommend using a reference manager for longer projects or papers, such as for junior independent work or senior theses, because it helps with organization and saves you time when adding references. Both of these papers had around 120 references, making a reference manager like Zotero an essential tool for keeping track of all the citations. I first started using Zotero during my summer internship when I was writing two biomaterials review papers, which I mentioned in my last post. This is where Zotero or Mendeley can help out. However, it can be cumbersome to manage all the references at once, especially when writing papers that have a seemingly never-ending list of references. Before this summer, I had never heard of Zotero, Mendeley, or any reference management applications, and instead, I usually turned to APA or MLA style guidelines and did my citations by hand.
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