Library Guides: Zotero: Getting Citations into Zotero

Adding references to your Zotero library

There are a number of ways to add items to your Zotero:

Automatically capture bibliographic information
Use book, item and folder icons displayed in the location bar at the top of your Firefox window. Use this when you can but it is not available for every source.
Add item by identifier
Use ISBN, DOI or PMID
Archive web pages
Open Zotero and use "Create new item from current page" icon
Import records from other reference management software, such as RefWorks
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Exporting citations from Refworks to Zotero from NCSU Libraries
Manually add items
Open Zotero and use green + icon
Store other files, such as images, documents or spreadsheets
Drag and drop

Importing from online databases

Many of our databases work very well with Zotero. Automatic capture is NOT available everywhere so be prepared to copy and paste or type in items from time to time.

Zotero compatible sites

Some issues to watch for when adding items from databases:

Complete author names if you get only initials
Volume/issue information appears in correct fields
Correct page ranges appear
Keywords or descriptors transfer appropriately into tags.