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Guide to using Zotero reference management software

Installing the Zotero Connector

The Zotero 'Connector will allow you to download bibliographic information or 'metadata' from the UCL's library catalogue, Explore, databases and webpages.  If you have authenticated with your UCL username and password, via Single Sign-on, Zotero will download both the bibliographic information and the full text of a journal article.

You can download the Connector from Zotero.org. Zotero will recognise the web browser you are using but it is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge.

Zotero Connector new.

Once you have downloaded the Connector, you will see an icon appear on your browser's toolbar. This icon will change depending on what you are looking at on the web. 

Zotero 7 connector icons type.

If for instance, you are looking at a Wikipedia entry Zotero will show a Reference type icon;

if you are looking at a book, Zotero will have an icon that looks like a book;

if you are looking at film, the icon will change to one that looks like a piece of celluloid;

If you are looking at a list of references, Zotero will display a folder.

Icons will also appear in your personal library and are a useful way of determining the type of reference you have downloaded.

In the image above you can see a blog post, a book, a chapter/selection from a book, a conference paper, a dictionary entry, an entry in an encyclopedia, a film, an interview script, articles, a magazine article, a file from an archive, newspaper article, a podcast, a report, a legal document, a doctorate and a documentary.