Zotero

When you install Zotero, it also adds a Zotero tab to your Word application. See our Download and Install instructions.

The plugin allows you to:

• Choose a citation style
• Add or edit a citation
• Add or edit a bibliography or list of references

1. Select the Zotero tab
2. Click Document Preferences
3. Select your citation style
4. Let other settings go to the default.
   Make sure the box next to "Automatically update citations" is checked unless you have a very large document.

1. In Zotero: Merge duplicates
2. In Word: Select the Zotero tab
3. Click Document Preferences and double check that you have the appropriate style selected.
4. In Word: Place cursor where you want the citation to appear
5. Click Add/Edit Citation
   
6. In the pop up, search for and highlight the item to cite
7. Add page numbers, additional authors, etc.
8. Click OK

Don't stack footnotes, bracketed numbers, or sets of parentheses at the end of a sentence.


Instead, combine all sources in one footnote, one set of brackets, or one set of parentheses.

Footnote example:

Other style examples:

• For numeric styles: [2,4-6]
• For author-date parenthetical styles: (Smith 1776, Schumpeter 1962)

1. Click Add/Edit Citation

2. Click the Multiple Sources button

3. Highlight one of your sources

4. Click the right pointing green arrow to add the source to the box

5. Add page number(s) if necessary

6. Continue adding sources this way until you get to the last source

7. Some styles (Chicago Notes & Bibliography, for example) require the word "and" just before the last source. When adding your last source only, type in "and" in the Prefix field

8. Click OK

Rules for Multiple Sources in One Citation

Oftentimes for webpages, the organization is used as the author, and the citation starts with the title. You can omit the author in the popup window in Word when you cite.

With author-date styles, authors are often moved into the text and omitted from the following parentheses-enclosed citation, e.g.: ”…according to Smith (1776) the division of labor is crucial …“

The organization name will appear in the bibliography though, as it should.

To cite the page, use the Page field. Other locators are in the drop down menu.

If the locator is not listed, e.g., Table, use the Suffix field.

You can insert a Zotero note directly into Word.

Go to the Zotero tab in Word > Click the Add Note button

In Word:

1. Select the Zotero tab

2. Click Add/Edit Citation

3. Select your style > most likely you are using: Chicago 17th edition (full note)

4. Select Endnotes

5. References tab

• Click the small arrow to expand the box
   
   
• In the Footnote and Endnote popup
  • Select Endnotes
• Select the desired number format from the dropdown menu
• Apply
  

To get a true word count of your paper (without including the words in the footnotes) you need to change the default setting in Word.

1. Click the Review tab in the ribbon
2. Click Word Count
3. Uncheck the box that includes the footnotes and endnotes