If you have questions, please contact Laurinda Matheson at a Quick Bibliography or Reference List Zotero's page on adding items to your library provides lots of detail about adding items to your Zotero library. You can choose the type of item (book, chapter, article, email.) and then fill in the fields with the information you have. If you have an item which is not listed anywhere, such as an unpublished manuscript or a personal communication, you can create a record manually using the green New Item button in the toolbar in your Zotero library window. You can also add items by identifying numbers such as ISBNs, DOIs, Pub Med IDs or arXiv IDs, using the Add Item by Identifier button in the toolbar in your Zotero library window. It is best to try to find a listing to use and then add your PDF to the new Zotero record if possible. This record may not be as correct or as complete as a record created by using the Connector icon on a listing for the item in Google Scholar or a database. If you have a PDF for an item which is not listed in your Zotero library, you can drag the PDF into the Zotero window and Zotero will create a record from the PDF data. You can add a PDF saved to your computer to a Zotero record for that item by dragging and dropping the PDF to the item record.

Zotero will also save citation information for websites.Ĭlick on the Collector icon and Zotero will create a record for the webpage you're on. If you click on it, you will get a list of available items you can select items to send to your Zotero library. If you are looking at a list of search results, in a database, catalogue, or Google Scholar, the icon will look like a folder.

If there is a PDF available, Zotero will send that as well. If you're looking at a listing for an article in Google Scholar or one of the library databases such as JSTOR, the icon will look like a sheet of paper.Ĭlicking on this icon will send the citation information for that book or article to Zotero. If you're looking at a book record in a library catalogue, the icon will look like a book. The icon will change depending on the webpage you're visiting. You can add items to your Zotero library using the Connector icon in your browser.

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