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How to use this reference management tool

Reference Management

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Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It is more advanced than ZoteroBib.

Why use a reference management tool?

Collect citations as you research and save them in a personal account
Annotate citations and link them to full-text documents
Organize citations into folders

A reference management tool is most useful for advanced research, or when you are using more than 20 sources.

What Is Zotero?

"What Is Zotero?" from Milner Library, Illinois State University, October 2019, 1 minute.