Research Guides: Literature Research for DLA and CU SPUR: Zotero

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Zotero is a free and open source citation management application.

Citation management tools allow you to retrieve, store, organize, take notes on, and generate citations from all your information sources like articles, books, videos, standards, and more. It is collaborative, so you can share your sources with the people you are working on your research with. Zotero will generate citations for your sources.

Getting Started with Zotero transcript transcript of the Getting Started with Zotero video

Use Zotero with LaTeX, Overleaf, and OneDrive

Use Zotero with LaTeX

Zotero does allow you to create BibTeX bibliographic entries. Learn how with these research guides:

Better BibTeX for Zotero Better BibTeX (BBT) is an extension for Zotero and Juris-M that makes it easier to manage bibliographic data, especially for people authoring documents using text-based toolchains (e.g. based on LaTeX / Markdown)
Managing References with LaTeX/BibTeX A research guide from the University of Melbourne Libraries.
Using Zotero with LaTeX and BibTeX FAQ A research guide from Princeton University Library

Use Zotero with Overleaf

Using Zotero with Overleaf A research guide from Caltech's Library

Use Zotero with OneDrive

Zotero provides 300 MB of free storage, but you can use linked files or the ZotFile Plugin to use Zotero with your CU Boulder OneDrive cloud storage.

Zotero: Linked Files Zotero support page on Linked Files and ZotFile plugin.
Using Zotero with Cloud Storage Services like OneDrive Step-by-step guide from the Washington State University Libraries

Literature Research for DLA and CU SPUR: Zotero

Ask our Engineering, Math & Physics Librarians

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Use Zotero with LaTeX, Overleaf, and OneDrive

Use Zotero with LaTeX

Use Zotero with Overleaf

Use Zotero with OneDrive