Brandel Library

Zotero: Personal Research Manager

This guide walks you through Zotero, a free tool for gathering, organizing, searching, and citing sources to create a personal research library.

Integrate Zotero with Word

Writing and Citing with Zotero

Once you've installed Zotero, you can insert citations from your Zotero library directly into a Word document. Open a Word document and select Zotero from the top toolbar. 

Try out the following key features: 

  • Add/Edit Citation inserts an in-text or footnote citation (depending on citation style).
  • Insert Bibliography generates a bibliography based on the sources you've cited in the document.