Zotero Tutorial: Inserting Citations into Texts

In this video, I show you how to insert parenthetical citations into a text you're writing in Microsoft Word. Next, we look at how to generate a list of references. Finally, I show you how to edit and correct your citations, and how to change from one citation format to another.

[@hazelhan8104]

Thanks you sooooo much, Sir! Your introduction of Zotero is the best! The pace and details are perfect!

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Amanda Ma, thanks so much! I'm glad they're helpful. Make sure to check out my Zotero quick tips, too, and subscribe for new videos!

[@sexym000nkey]

at 2:00 Nicholas covers where to find "in-text citations" in Word on a Mac. You'll find the Zotero reference picker in Word under the black scripts icon. THANKS A MILLION NICHOLAS!! These are terrifically explained videos :)

[@nadinelucas7788]

Thank you Nicholas, I wish I knew this program 2 years ago when I wrote 80 pages. It is never too late as I will be writing 400 pages. It will save me an enormous amount of time as I struggled with citations and References. Great tutorial, I saved it as a bookmark. Much appreciated.

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

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[@carolinespec]

Thanks for all these videos. Your instructions are great.

[@MostafaMASLOUHI]

Thank you very much Nicholas. You have well done by making these videos. I have see them all and there are the best and the complete in the subject.

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Merci bien, Mostafa! I'm glad they were helpful!

[@TheChandru555]

Thank you for the video, it's the entire tool explained in such a simple manner :)

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Chandrashekhar Tallapragada thanks!

[@anthonypenny2667]

Well done! You have done a great service providing these videos.

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Many thanks, Anthony. I hope they're helpful to you and your students!

[@politico13]

4 years after being posted and this video saved me, thanks!

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Jorge Jimenez Canale glad I could help!

[@amarachiigbo6601]

Thank you for this enlighten tutorial. I have really learnt a lot about using the Zotero Reference Manager. I am very grateful.

[@Favoritsvid]

Great, helpful, covers all aspects of the program !

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Anas H thanks! Glad it was helpful!

[@mountainkids]

This is a wonderful video series. Just what I needed. Thanks for the hard work.

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Many thanks, Andrew! Glad I could be of help. If you notice other aspects of Zotero you'd like to know more about, let me know. I'm always looking for the next video topic!

[@kingastokowska569]

Amazing!!! Thank you a million!

[@braaaptv6028]

Saw all vidz 4 Zotero, thank You!

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Glad you liked them!

[@MuhammadAhmad-ye8vp]

Great tutorial! You saved my time ;)

[@noorfadzilahzulkifli9672]

Thank you very much, very helpful

[@888cheyenne]

Thaaaank you so much for having published these videos... :-)

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Thank for watching them!

[@gesahirsch]

Excellent video, thank you!

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Thanks!

[@byakenda9692]

Thanks for the tip. My best regards!

[@PeterSchutte]

such a helpful video thank you

[@TheJoshtheboss]

Important! Make sure you remove fields in your final version. After you do so, you will not be able to refresh, so make sure to have one copy with the fields still active. But Zotero forums do recommend to remove them for final version.

[@andreabond5450]

thank you!!

[@franciscogerardohernandezr4788]

The tool its pretty good. Had I seen this a year before...

[@PVCol]

Gracias muy didáctica la explicación

[@celsofernandocerezobregni1621]

Thanks Nicholas. I found your video very useful. I´m using APA style and I want to insert the citations in the footnotes without brackets. How can I do APA citation without brackets?

[@lamin1979]

thanks for sharing this

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Thanks, Lamin, for watching. Hope it was helpful.

[@suzygrim8735]

I can't thank you enough for these videos! I have looked online and through your videos. Do you know how to manually enter the preface of a book that is written by a different author? I entered it manually with the Title of the Preface as "Préface", along with the author of the book, name and author (different from author of the preface) of the book but when I cite it within my text, it inserts this - (“Préface” 9) with only the page number but neither the name of the book, nor the preface or book author. I'm using MLA format. In addition, when I create the bibliography, in the list of sources it is also called looks like this « Préface ». Le professeur interculturel, l’Harmattan, 2015, p. 9 12. with no authors names at all. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you so much again!

[@MohdJavedAkhtar]

Thanks for the video which helped me in learning Zotero. I dont know how to delete a single or group of citation in word document using Zotero. can you please help me. Thanks

[@saikatghosh90]

Can Zotero detect citations inserted by Mendeley? I have a large document where citations have been inserted by Mendeley, but now Mendeley is not recognizing the citations. Are there any solutions?

[@RS-wf6fp]

How to cite whole paragraph or multiple pages of our document using zotero?

[@AP-yx1mm]

So I see you had to add manually the title References and add the bibliography. Couldn't that function with the automatic References from Word?

[@josegregoriotorrealbar.3801]

Thanks Nicholas, excellent tutorials!. In the case of footnote citations, does Zotero make the corresponding changes when you cite an author more than once? Does it use Idem, Ibidem or ob. cit. abreviations?

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Yup! All those details depend on the format you choose.

[@josegregoriotorrealbar.3801]

@@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody Thanks! I am using Chicago footnotes but I cannot find how to use those abreviations, when I cite the same author and work more than once, any idea?

[@rebiccaranjit1657]

How shall we add doi in bibliography?

[@jeanlucas24]

This is an outstanding series--thank you so much for the effort you put into this. One feature I'd like to see integrated into Zotero, particularly for high school students, is outlining. Do you know of a plug-in or third-party software/service which works well for this?

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Thanks! Glad they were helpful. I can't personally recommend an outlining plugin for Zotero. I use IThoughts HD with cite keys from Zotero that I export using Better BibTex, but I don't know if it would work in the context you're describing. I would check out the Zotero forums: forums.zotero.org/discussion/1919/outlining-in-zotero/. If you find a good solution, let me know. I'd like to share it with my students, too!

[@haraldurkarlsson1147]

Compared to LaTeX this seems way adding references and citation (to word) seems super-slow and inefficient.

[@deseandyson9003]

I know I'm late to the party, but is there any advice or troubleshooting for works cited hiccup I keep running into? For whatever reason, it keeps flushing my page left and won't indent the citations. Am I doing something wrong, or is there a program or formatting fix I can apply?

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

I've had some students who need to fix the formatting after they generate the bibliography. You can find instructions for Word here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2PQdohto82tfsk&frags=pl%2Cwn. Good luck!

[@beibeizhang6964]

Nice work. Can you also teach us how to integrate zoteto to scrivener ?

[@NicholasCifuentesGoodbody]

Yes! This is something I go into in the Slack channel I run. You can join here: launchpass.com/researchhacking

[@muhammadusman5849]

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