Tips on Using Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research sources. It’s the best of all tools that I have ever used to manage personal research library.

Some Awesome Features

• Items in Zotero libraries can be organized with collections and tags.

• Zotero’s sync functionality allows you to access your Zotero library on any computer with internet access. Zotero syncing has two parts: data syncing and file syncing. Zotero file sync works with WebDAV servers, for example, Iianguyun. If you read Chinese, a guide on setting up the WebDAV server with Jianguoyun can be found here https://help.jianguoyun.com/?p=3168.

• Zotero detects duplicates and allows merging duplicates.

• The Zotero Connector browser extensions allow you to add items to your Zotero library with the click of a button in a browser such as Firefox, Chrome, Edge, or Safari.

Some Awesome Add-ons

• Better BibTeX for Zotero

  • Automatically generate citation keys.
  • Generate citation keys based on contents of your items using citekey formulas.
  • Set your own, stable citation keys, drag and drop LaTeX citations, add other custom BibLaTeX fields.

• Zotero Scihub

  Automatically download PDFs for items with a DOI from SciHub.

• ZotFile

  Automatically rename, move, and attach PDFs (or other files) to Zotero items, sync PDFs between Zotero library to a (mobile) PDF reader, and extract annotations from PDF files.

• Zotero DOI Manager

  Auto-fetch DOI names for journal articles using the CrossRef API, as well as look up shortDOI names using http://shortdoi.org.

• Zotero PDF Preview

  Preview items in either the top/bottom of the info pane or the preview pane.

• Zotero Tag

  Manage all your Tags in one Zotero add-on.

  • Automatically add /unread tag for new items and remove /unread after read
  • Support batch processing with tags
  • Manage tags with custom rules

• Zutilo

  • Copy, paste, and remove sets of tags
  • Select and right-click to relate several items
  • Copy items to the clipboard in several formats

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