Zotero

What is Zotero? Zotero is a free reference manager that allows you to gather and organize your referencesas well as automatically create in-text citations and bibliographies in the citation style of your choice.

Zotero works on all three major operating systems: PC, Mac, and Linux. It works best with Chrome and Firefox, but you can download and install plug-ins for Safari and Edge as well.

Zotero Quick Start Guide - from the folks at Zotero

To get started with Zotero, you'll need to download a few different items:

• Zotero Desktop: this is your main library where you'll be able to collect and organize your articles and other materials
• Zotero Connector: a browser extension that will let you pull citations directly from the web into Zotero
• Zotero Word Processor Integration: a plug-in that will help you cite Zotero items and generate bibliographies in Microsoft Word and/or OpenOffice (This should install automatically when you install the desktop app.)

The University of Ottawa maintains an excellent series of video tutorials (with transcripts) to help with every stage of downloading and learning to use Zotero. Check them out!