Citation Management Tools: Zotero

Zotero Created Guides and Links

• Quick Start Guide
• Zotero Documentation 
• Screencast Tutorials

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Zotero is an open source project of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a nonprofit with no financial interest in your private information. So, using Zotero you always stay in control of your own data.

With Zotero, you can...

• import references from databases, catalogs, and websites
• organize your references, PDFs, and other file types
• take notes
• create citations and bibliographies
• collaborate with groups
• sync and backup your library

NEW to Zotero 6!

• read, annotate, and take notes on your PDFs with Zotero's built-in PDF reader

View a series of videos from Penn Libraries' Zotero tutorials channel. This playlist is curated as an introduction to Zotero.

Have a Zotero question or instructional request? Contact us at libzotero@pobox.upenn.edu for assistance.