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Zotero
Zotero

Subjects:
Architecture and built environment, Business and management, Communication and creative media, Language, Health sciences and medicine, Law, International relations and humanities, Social sciences, psychology and counselling
Data type:
Text
Licensing:
Check site for trials, plans and options
Purpose:
Literature review, Reading and writing, Reference management
Type:
Browser extension, Plug-in, Web application

Description

A free, open-source software application, designed to help you organise your literature research by managing your references. Use it to collect, organise, tag and manage references within your Zotero library.

  • integrates with word processors such as MS Word and Google Docs
  • formats in-text citations and reference lists in commonly used referencing styles, such as APA 7th, Vancouver, Harvard and AGLC4.
  • available for Mac, Windows, Linux and iOS
  • limited storage for free (additional storage available at extra cost)

Browser connectors are used to save references to Zotero.

Instructions

Staff:

  1. install the desktop component on your Bond work PC via the Company Portal
  2. install the browser connector

Students and staff personal devices:

  1. install the Zotero software, browser extension and mobile app from the Zotero download page.

Support

Faculty librarians can assist with referencing advice.

+61 7 5595 1510
askalibrarian@bond.edu.au

Zotero documentation

Referencing style guides

If you are not sure this is the right reference manager for you, take a look at this feature comparison table. If you change your mind at a later date, it easy to export your existing citation library to a new reference management system.

Browser connector settings for licensed Library resources.

  1. Right-click the extension icon and choose Extension options
  2. Go to the proxies section and replace any default scheme with the following code: https://go.openathens.net/redirector/bond.edu.au?url=https://%h%a/%p
  3. Clear both Automatically associate new hosts and Automatically convert hyphens to dots... or it will not work.

Screenshot of Zotero proxy preferences

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