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Zotero Citation Management Tool

A citation management tool helps you keep track of and organize various references for a paper or project. It also helps you to quickly create citations for your resources in a selected format (APA, MLA, Turabian, etc.)

Getting Started

Zotero is a free, open-source citation management tool that allows you to easily collect, manage, cite and share research sources.


To get started you will need to:

The Zotero Connector is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.


If you've installed the Zotero Connector for Chrome or Firefox and have the Zotero program installed, a Zotero menu option will automatically appear in Google Docs. 

Zotero in Google Docs