Zotero: Managing Citations with Zotero

Zotero's great if you are:

1. Writing a thesis or dissertation
2. Needing to store, organize, and manage many resources
3. Collaborating and need to share sources

Zotero's not so great if you are:

1. Writing a short paper
2. Working with a small number of resources (< 10)
3. Too stressed/busy to learn a new tool

Created by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Zotero is a free citation management tool that helps you organize, collect, and share your research. ​

Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies.

It automatically updates itself periodically to work with new online sources and new bibliographic styles.

Please note: UNL does not have an institutional license for Zotero and cannot offer technical support.

Interested in a Zotero workshop?

There are many other tools for citation management out there besides Zotero. Which one you use is up to you. They all do similar things, just in different ways. Check out these other great tools and get help at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: