Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a tool that helps you collect, manage, and cite your references. Zotero automatically updates itself to work with new online sources and new bibliographic styles.
If you don't need a full citation manager and just have a few citations & bibliographic entries to copy/paste, try ZoteroBib.
Zotero was built and is supported by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
zotero.org will open in a new window.
With a ChromeBook you have 3 options:
Installing the Zotero desktop version should automatically add the Zotero plugin to Microsoft Word. Once in a while it doesn't work. After downloading and installing, check your MS Word toolbar: is "zotero" there? If so, great! If not, first try quitting MS Word and rebooting your computer. If it still doesn't appear, check this Zotero documentation about how to correct the problem.
The first time you use Zotero with Google Docs, it will ask for permissions; say yes. After this, it may get caught in a seemingly endless updating spiral. Solution: quit your browser and restart. Zotero should then function normally.
This guide is adapted from one originally created by Jason Puckett and licensed by Georgia State University Library under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License. Jason's original guide is also available online.
