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Citation Styles & Tools

What your citation looks like depends on the style that your academic discipline follows. If you don't know where to start (and if your instructor hasn't specified a style guide to follow), read through the overview of common citation styles.

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Zotero

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Zotero is a free, open-source reference management tool that offers both a downloadable software for Windows, Mac, and Linux and browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox , or Safari.

  • Sort research into collections and create keywords as tags
  • Save and annotate snapshots of web pages within citation library
  • Unlimited Zotero library sharing with other users at no additional cost
  • Save publication data from websites, journal articles, newspapers, and PDFs in user’s library
  • Redirect through the user’s institutional proxy to access PDFs
  • Recommended web browser extension
  • Saves citations to online Zotero library
  • Redirects user to institutional subscriptions 
  • Online storage space for Zotero files
  • Synchronize PDFs, images, web snapshots, and other files across shared computers
  • Share Zotero attachments in group libraries and access files via Zotero library
  • Free 300 MB storage with more storage options at affordable rates 
  • A free, simple, web-based tool for creating bibliographies, based on the same saving and citation functionality in Zotero.
  • Similar to tools like CitationMachine and EasyBib, ZoteroBib but without advertisements. 

Zotero Tutorials