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Sunday, February 14, 2010 (Updated )

Zotero

by The Metaist

Summary

Zotero is an excellent way to organize, save, and cite your research.

In other words, magic.

Library books on shelf

(Photo: libraryriot at Flickr)

 

Commentary

Zotero is plugin for Firefox that provides inline citation and bibliography for many different styles including MLA, APA, IEEE and many more.

Zotero also provides plugins for OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Word. One thing I particularly like is its ability to store PDFs and extract metadata; it saves so much time and lets you focus on continuing to do your research.

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See Also

  • Zotero for the plugin and related resources.

Updates

2010-02-24

  • Added link to Zotero.

2011-09-19

  • Zotero now offers Zotero Standalone which works without requiring Firefox (e.g., in Google Chrome).