Zotero // PRO Tips for Beginners
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
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In this video, I share my favorite tips and tricks for you (the beginner) to become a PRO at using Zotero, the FREE reference manager. The video is designed to help provide you with the most helpful information in a way that is easy to follow for those who may not be very tech-savvy.
Feel free to jump to the sections that you need help with most; below are the topics I cover in this video:
00:50 - Installing Zotero on Computer
02:24 - Adding Connector to Chrome & Safari
05:22 - Uploading your first Article
10:20 - In-Text Citations and Bibliography/Reference Pages
15:12 - Copy & Paste Method
18:00 - PDF Files
18:30 - Highlighting PDF Files
19:57 - Pulling Direct Quotes from PDF
21:00 - Saving Tables & Figures in PDF
21:40 - Adding Notes to PDF
22:02 - Using Tags to Organize Notes & Articles
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Finally! a clear video communicating the basics of Zotero footnotes and bibliography. The note-taking is an added bonus. The most successful students are the most organized students. It looks like Zotero can be good for organizing research...
I 100% agree; the more organized, the better! Thanks for watching, and best of luck with your writing. 😁
Dominic, do you download the connector first?
Hi Dominic, I accidentally 'bumped' into this video and I want to express my happiness and appreciation of the simplicity of your presentation. Coincidentally, I am also doing an MA research in EI and mental health.
I'm glad it was helpful, that was my intent, “simplicity” because I hadn't found something myself so I decided to create it.
That's wonderful, what will your study be looking at? What population of people?
Thank you so much for this informative tutorial! This is what I have been looking for.
You’re very welcome, glad it helped! 😄
Very helpful! Excellent presentation! Blessings
Glad it was helpful! 😁
Thank you - I am just starting to use Zotero for my Ed D and your video was super-helpful!
Good luck on your journey, and super happy it helped you! More videos that have helped me to come. 😃
Very clear and easy to follow, thanks 👍
So glad it was helpful! You’re welcome. 🤓
Fantastic resource! This is a great introduction to Zotero and the clear and slow cadence of your voice makes it easy for me to share it with researchers who I'm teaching scientific writing to in Africa. Thank you!
So happy it’s helping you! This is the video I needed when I was learning Zotero. Crazy to think that it’s being watched in places like Africa. Best of luck! 👍🏼
Excellent section on references and bibliography.
Thanks so much, appreciate you taking the time to comment. 😁
New to Zotero! Thanks for the straight forward tutorial on how to implement this. I now have it up and running :)
Glad it helped!
Thanks, extremely informative content!
Thanks for watching! 😎
Hi! Just starting my first research position after undergrad and this was super helpful, thank you so much!!!
Congratulations on your new appointment, best of luck. So glad it was helpful! 🥼😎
This video was very helpful. 👍🏾👍🏾 It helped me understand how I could fully utilize Zotero and this will help me with my thesis write up and referencing. 😊
That’s great, so happy I could help! Best of luck on that thesis. 👍🏼
Great information!
Thank you, appreciate it. :)
Wow! Thanks for this!!!
No problem! 😎
I used Zotero a lot from 2016 to about 2021. Zotero was good and useful then. But now with the new update and intuitive PDF reader, that's a whole new level! Wow, well done Zotero team 👏
Thanks Josh, I fully agree it really helps with the workflow!
thank you very much! i demonstrate basic features of Zotero at my job, but i'm constantly learning something new, so your video was very helpful.
Great to hear!
Great video, thanks mate!
No problem 👍
Zotero is awesome. I love their iPad app so much, helps me read papers anywhere I want, also syncs my annotations
I agree. It has made my workflow much more manageable. I often read from my phone as well if I'm traveling or waiting in lines.
I love this......
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
😄😄 you’re welcome!
This is what i need. Thanks a lotttt!
Happy to help, glad you liked it! 😁
@@dominicramos next, please make tips for SLR by using Zotero + ResearchRabbit or others, sir. Hehehe
Thank you so much for that
You are very welcome! 😉
Thanks for a great video! Fellow Baylor doctoral student here just getting started this fall. Sic 'em!
That's awesome, best of luck during the program! 🐻
@@dominicramosextremely helpful video man. Thank you so much. I’m using zotero now! 🙏😊
thanks!
You’re welcome. 👍🏼
Hi Dominic, this is very helpful! I'm elated to see that your field of study is education. I'm currently doing a Master of Education (post secondary studies) and would like to learn more from you.
Most CZcamsrs unfortunately have content based on science research for the most part.
So glad you found it helpful!
You’re right; many are in the sciences and rarely share qualitative or mixed-method research styles. I’ve been fortunate to be in both, so I figured I’d share a few tips that hopefully help someone. 😁
@@dominicramos I'm positive it will help many in my situation. One suggestion for your next video could be: researching papers in the field of education and quick tips to detect important parts of these papers 🙏😊
I’m sure I can put something together, thanks for the video idea 💡
I loved the tips and tricks! Thank you very much! I still have the question, how to implement websites into it, for example, newspaper articles? If you'd help me here it would be a lifesaver!!
If you utilize the etension for Zotero in Google or Safari (as shown in my video) I believe it allows you to cite the website. I've done it a few times myself, but I would recommend double checking the information it pulls as it may be off. It will get the majority of the information, you will just need to make minor amendments in the Zotero program to that specific citation.
Hope that helps! ♥️
Excellent video Dominic.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it. 😁
@@dominicramos you mentioned importing articles that are already saved. I did not see you demonstrate that.
@@reneelevy1377 you are absolutely correct, I noticed it “after” the video went live. Somehow I cut that part out by mistake. I'll make a short 3-5 minute video to address that. Hopefully this weekend! 👍🏻
@@dominicramos you are amazing!!!! 🙂 Thank you so much. I have over 200 articles for my dissertation I need to pull into Zotero.
@@dominicramos I just shared your CZcams on my FaceBook page.
Thanks a lot for sharing! Still got a question concerning what you’ve said at 7:20. If I already have lots of files, organized in folders, is it possible for me to import them all to zotero at once, with the order remained?
Yes you can! I’ve been meaning to make a video on this, there’s 3 ways you can add new sources to Zotero and each of them has a purpose. For you, you can simply “select all” (CTRL + A) all of the sources saved to your computer and simply drag them over to Zotero. I recommend doing it in small batches because it will take a while to process all the metadata from each article. Hope that helps!
Hello. Thanks for the informative video. Can I import documents other than PDF?
Yes you can, however, you won’t have the metadata available in different documents so it might not auto populate the reference fields. They’ll at least be saved for you all in one place, you will just need to manually type author names, publication, date, issue, etc.
Hi, can I add long references of articles I have not uploaded in Zotero, and still keep the references generated by Zotero? I lost few hours of work, when e.g., I manually copied a citation of Author A, and pasted it in the long reference list (without uploading the document to Zotero). when I added the citation of Author B (from Zotero), Author A reference vanished from the long list. Is there a way to solve this? Do I need to upload ALL the documents to be cited in Zotero? thanks!
The best practice would be to continually add all articles you want in your reference list/bibliography to Zotero. This process will allow you to either include or omit references with ease and avoid any extraneous work. You can easily add references to Zotero by dragging and dropping the PDF into Zotero, or looking it up via the DOI or ISSN number. I hope this answers your question! 😁 Best of luck!
Hi, thanks so much for the useful video here. I am using Zotero but found one limitation in it. i.e., we cannot cite any code books (building standard code books which don't possess any authors as such) downloaded/dropped into the Zotero library. Could you please correct me if I'm wrong at this point?
That’s a good question, if it doesn’t auto populate then (to my knowledge) the text does not have metadata to fill out the desired fields. I do run into this issue from time-to-time with seminal older works, and unfortunately it’s just one of those instances where you have to self-populate the fields. For citation reference I go to OwlPurdue and look up the proper citation mechanics. Hope that helps!
Hi Dominic, I would like to reach out to you. I want to redo my reference list. How can I do that without have to go back to each citation?
Hello there! I would love to help. However, I’m not sure I understand your question; what do you mean by “you want to redo your list?” Are your references already in Zotero? Or do you have them saved elsewhere?
I have an entire library using another platform. how do I import this library to zotero?
Good question, which platform did you use?
Are you aware of how to share notes you take on documents with colleagues? Basically like a Google Doc where we can see notes taken by another peer
No, unfortunately I am not. I will definitely look into it now that you bring it to my attention, have not seen any updates where that was possible, but I may have missed it. Thanks!
I watched this whole video in frustration as with other videos because no one is showing how to cite a paragraph within a paper.
Sorry to hear that, but this is a video on how to “get started” with Zotero. That's a much more nuanced citation question, so I'm sorry you didn't get what you were looking for.
However, hope this helps, this is the APA guidelines for text longer than 40 words: “Quotations longer than 40 words should be formatted as block quotations. Indent the entire passage half an inch and present the passage without quotation marks. Any relevant page numbers should follow the concluding punctuation mark. If the author and/or date are not referenced in the text, as they are here, place them in the parenthetical that follows the quotation along with the page numbers.”
Happy referencing! -hope I was able to help. 👍🏻😁
@@dominicramos Ok I will try it. I have to use Cite it right harvard style
@@dominicramos The issue is how to cite orher works within a paper other than the main authors of a paper. Zotero only allows to cite the main paper authors. Maybe I am wrong and hence I am seeking solutions. Will try what you suggested
Bro the next thing is your volume level is very low and that added to my frustration.
This video has been played in both small and large classrooms, and from mobile devices without issue. I do apologize for your specific experience, you may wish to check your device settings to improve the output. I do use high-quality Rode mics during recording to ensure this is a non-issue for viewers such as yourself. Thanks again for your feedback, much appreciated. 😉
@@dominicramos Ok I understand. My Asus volume was on 100%. Thanks for the response.
Edge, oooh gross.
Lol.
LOL 🤣 exactly! Disgusting. 🤢