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

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.

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

 

Zotero provides limited storage for free. Check the website for purchasing additional storage.

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.

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