Zotero is a project of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship. It was created at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Director

• Sean Takats

Lead Developer

• Dan Stillman

Senior Developer

• Faolan Cheslack-Postava

Developers

• Bogdan Abaev
• Martynas Bagdonas
• Abe Jellinek
• Tom Najdek
• Dima Petrov
• Michal Rentka
• Miltiadis Vasilakis
• Adomas Venčkauskas
• Xiangyu Wang

Design

• Yexing Sha

Alumni

• Roy Rosenzweig (Executive Producer)
• Johannes Krtek (Designer, 2017–2022; new app icon, 2024)
• Zoë Ma (Translator Development, 2023)
• Brendan O’Connell (Outreach Coordinator, 2022–2023)
• Fletcher Hazlehurst (Developer, 2020–2021)
• Simon Kornblith (Senior Developer, 2006–2016)
• Kim Nguyen (Site Design, 2010-2012)
• Ben Schneider (Graduate Research Assistant, 2013-2015)
• Debbie Maron (Community Outreach, 2011)
• Dan Cohen (Co-Director, 2006-2010)
• Jeremy Boggs (Site Design, 2006-2011)
• Trevor Owens (Technology Evangelist, 2007-2010)
• Connie Sehat (Co-Director, 2007-2009)
• Fred Gibbs (Developer, 2007-2009)
• Matt Burton (Developer, 2008-2009)
• Jon Lesser (Developer, 2008-2009)
• Andrew Howard (Technical Support, 2009)
• Elena Razlogova (Project Guidance, 2006-2008)
• Shekhar Krishnan (Evangelist, 2007-2008)
• Michael Berkowitz (Developer, 2007-2008)
• Asa Kusuma (Intern Developer, 2007-2008)
• Ben Parr (Intern Developer, 2007-2008)
• Ramesh Srigiriraju (Intern Developer, 2007)
• Kari Kraus (Technology Evangelist, 2006-2007)
• Josh Greenberg (Co-Director, 2006-2007)
• David Norton (Developer, 2006-2007)

Zotero benefits from a strong user community. Exceptional contributions have been made by:

• Frank Bennett (citeproc-js, Citation Style Language, user support, Juris-M)
• Bruce D'Arcus (Citation Style Language, user support)
• Emiliano Heyns (Better BibTeX, client improvements)
• Sebastian Karcher (user support, wiki documentation, CSL styles, web translators, translations)
• Sylvester Keil (anystyle.io, arkivo, web services integration)
• Joscha Legewie (ZotFile, client improvements)
• Avram Lyon (user support, Zandy, web translators, wiki documentation)
• POBrien333 (CSL styles)
• Julian Onions (CSL styles)
• Jason Puckett (third-party documentation)
• Mikko Rönkkö (ZotPad, user support)
• Will Shanks (plugin development, client improvements)
• Michael Steele (Zotero Standalone installer improvements)
• Aurimas Vinckevicius (web translators, client improvements, user support)
• Brenton M. Wiernik (user support, wiki documentation, CSL styles)
• Rintze Zelle (Citation Style Language, user support, wiki documentation, CSL styles, translators, translations)
• Philipp Zumstein (translators, Scaffold, user support)

For the list of contributors to each locale, see the Zotero project on Transifex.

Spell-checking in Zotero relies on dictionaries from Mozilla contributors.

Zotero is built on Firefox and depends on many other exceptional open-source projects:

• ACE Editor
• Citation Style Language
• citeproc-js (Frank Bennett)
• epub.js
• Fugue icons (Yusuke Kamiyamane)
• KaTeX
• Monaco Editor
• Pastel SVG icons (Michael Buckley)
• pdf.js
• ProseMirror
• proseMirror-math
• React
• RNV
• Silk icons (Mark James)
• Timeline (SIMILE Project)
• SingleFile (Gildas Lormeau)
• Tabulator RDF parser
• Tango Desktop Project icons
• TinyMCE
• Xpdf

Zotero was generously funded by the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

• Raymond Yee (University of California, Berkeley)
• Dan Chudnov (Yale University)
• Abby Smith (Council on Library and Information Resources)
• Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information)
• David Seaman (Digital Library Federation)
• Martha Anderson (Library of Congress)
• Matthew MacArthur (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
• Wally Grotophorst (George Mason University Library)
• Kathy Perry (Virtual Library of Virginia)