Zotero - a document management tool

1. brief introduction ：Zotero Is an open source document management tool , It can provide document management 、 Browsing and many other services , It can greatly facilitate our scientific research and Thesis Writing .

2. Download and install

Official website ：Zotero | Your personal research assistant

We can download the software directly on its official website , Click on Download, Enter the download interface

The official default gives two download options , One is the application itself , The other is browser adaptation plug-in .

Download and install .

3. Basic operation

3.1 Read the literature ： Can be in Zotero Read the imported literature directly in , And add notes 、 Notes, etc , At the same time, different colored labels can be added to the literature to distinguish .

3.2 Document management ： We can create new classifications in the document library , Level by level , Import Literature , Form a system with a logical system .

3.3 Add reference （ be used Word plug-in unit ）

When we install the software , It will be installed by default Word plug-in unit , Then the corresponding icon will appear in the toolbar

  When we edit the document , When you need to add a reference , We can click Add Citation, Select Format , Add reference

  after , Then complete the selection of corresponding documents in this window , The corresponding citation and reference marks will be generated .

4. Extension plug-in

①Zotero It provides us with some third-party plug-ins to choose from ：

besides , Here we recommend some plug-ins that are widely recommended and used by everyone

②jasminum( The jasmine ） plug-in unit

function ： Crawl metadata , Split 、 Merge names and remove commas from articles

website ：​​​​​​GitHub - l0o0/jasminum: A Zotero add-on to retrive CNKI meta data. A simple Zotero plug-in unit , Used to identify Chinese metadata

③ZotFile plug-in unit

website ：ZotFile - Advanced PDF management for Zotero

Bright spot ： Help will Zotero in PDF Synchronize to ipad、 On the plate ; from PDF Extract comments from the file .

④Zotero Connector

Introduce ： Download and install Zetro when , We can choose to install plug-in tools that match the browser , After successful installation, a document icon will appear in the menu bar

Instructions ： We open the literature database , Browse a document online , The icon will light up , Let's click on the icon , Choose the path , It can capture documents to Zetro in , Follow up can be read directly （ Be careful ： Make sure that Zetro In the open running state ）

5. Management and installation of plug-ins

After downloading the corresponding plug-in , We turn on Zetro, Click Tools in turn - plug-in unit , Open the plug-in management page .

Then click the gear shaped logo in the upper right corner , choice Install Add-on From File, Select the corresponding save path to add .