Third-Party Documentation

This page lists Zotero documentation written by third parties.

To request a change to this page, please post to the Zotero Forums.

• Emory University Libraries. Created by Erin Mooney, Instructional Librarian.
• Georgia State University. Created by Jason Puckett, Online Learning Librarian and author of Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers, and Educators. (LibGuide available for adaptation with attribution: it's covered under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United State License).
• Harvard Library.
• MIT Libraries.
• Wake Forest University ZSR Library. Created by Kyle Denlinger, eLearning Librarian.
• Washington & Lee University Library. Created by Emily Cook, Research and Outreach Librarian.

优雅地用 Zotero 进行文献管理和论文写作 A Short Chinese Introduction to Zotero, by Minyi Han from Nanjing Agricultural University

Carrefour Zotero, a website in French created and maintained by Université du Québec

Note that most of the documentation listed below was written for older versions of Zotero and may not be completely accurate for Zotero 5 or 6.

A number of school libraries have put together very basic Zotero pages. Most of these pages have co-opted a bit of text from Zotero’s homepage, offering some basic installation instructions, maybe an embedded video on using Zotero and usually information on customizing Zotero to the specific institution. Other libraries have chosen to develop their own versions of Zotero’s quick start guide. In the examples below librarians at each of these institutions made their own set of screenshots, walking through what they saw as the key uses of Zotero for their patrons.

• University of Baltimore
• Stanford University (PDF; 2007)
• George Mason University (PDF; n.d.)
• MIT Libraries (PDF; 2017)

Other libraries and campus educators have developed more extensive guides. Each of these examples attempts to provide greater detail related to issues specific to groups of researchers or library audiences at their institutions.

• Boston College Law School
• Pitts Theological Library at Emory
• Purdue University; includes video tutorials to get beginners familiar with Zotero and Zotero groups.
• University of Michigan

• Zotero 5.0 and Juris-M: Reference Management for Law, Downloadable CC0 Presentation by Antony Groves for University of Sussex Library (2018).
• Zotero and LaTeX/BibTeX, PDF by Christine Malinowski for MIT Libraries (2018).
• Zotero Workshop Outline and Notes, from James Jacobs, Stanford University (2017).
• Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography assignment by Brian Croxall (2010).
• Zotero and Flickr, from Kathryn Greenhill (2009).
• Zotero as a Note-taking Tool for Historians: Presentation by Harold Marcuse, University of California Santa Barbara (2007).
• Zotero and LibX: Archived tutorial by Jacob Glenn for University of Michigan (2007).

Below are links to archival copies of third party guides formerly featured on this list, but no longer maintained by their host institutions or web pages. In most cases these are several versions out of date and may not include images or videos, but may still contain links or other information of interest to documentation developers.

• Cubberley Education Library at Stanford (2007-2013).
• George Mason University: Citation migration guide (2010).
  • Handout: Moving from Endnote to Zotero (PDF; 2008).
• Harvard University: Using Zotero for Archival Research (2014).
• La Trobe University (2011).
• Lincoln Mullen (personal website): How to create a workflow in Zotero (2009).
• Murdoch University: Thing 13: Zotero Citation Manager by Kate Freedman (2009).
• RERO -- Library Network of Western Switzerland (2013).
• Wake Forest University Library (2008).