

Once you have found it, click the title so you can see all the information about the item.Ģ. Look up the book you wish to save in the UVic Library Catalog. This requires more effort, as it involves inputting the title, author name, date, publisher info, and so on.ġ. Enter the book information into Zotero manually.Use an identifier like an ISBN to populate a record in your library.Use Zotero Connector to capture a book from a library catalog.You have now added multiple articles to Zotero! From here you can add tags and notes, move the articles to a different collection or organize them, export the articles to Word for your bibliography, and more.Īdding books to Zotero is very simple and can be done in three ways: By making sure the saved item is complete now, you will save yourself time later when you want to cite that resource. Sometimes it will skip important areas you need for your bibliography, like the doi/URL, or the complete author name. Note: This is a fast way to select multiple items, but ensure that Zotero has collected all the pertinent information. Now, looking at the collection in Zotero, you can see that all the journal articles selected are now saved to the library!

Once you have hit "OK" you will see the journals being saved to your collection, in the bottom right corner of your browser screen.Ĥ. You will need to scroll down before checking the folder, to save the articles that are further down the list.ģ. Note: The number of articles that appear will be limited to the ones you have scrolled over/that are visible on the page. Click the boxes of the journal articles you want to save, then click "OK". They have checkboxes next to the article name. When you click the folder, a pop-up will appear with the titles of the journal articles from the search results. Notice that in the corner (where the sheet of paper would be for the individual article) there is a small folder. Let's go back to our search results, where we had the list of articles related to our keywords. Zotero also lets you capture multiple journal article in one click.ġ. You have now added a journal article to Zotero! From here, you can add tags and notes, move the article to a different collection, export the article to Word for your bibliography, and more. Zotero also tells you what type of item it is, to further organize your collection. Now if you go to Zotero, the journal article you saved is in your library.ĭepending on the journal article you chose, Zotero will have recorded the name of the article, the author, the abstract, the date, the journal name, the volume and issue number, the DOI. Don't panic if you haven't created a collection yet! Items can be moved between collections within your library.Ĥ. Where it saves in your Zotero depends on if you've created a collection and selected it. Once you've clicked the sheet of paper, you'll see a small pop-up in the bottom right of the screen that says "Saving to ". Once you've selected the journal article and are viewing it in your browser, you'll see an icon that looks like a tiny sheet of paper in the top right hand corner of your browser window if you hover over it, it says " Save to Zotero".Ĭlick that sheet of paper. Click the title of an article you would like to save.Ģ. From the library homepage, search your topic keywords to find a journal article. Note: Zotero must be open in order to add items to your library.Ģ. Start by opening Zotero in your computer.
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We'll take a look at how to capture single articles, then how to capture multiple articles.ġ. This will help you stay organized, keep track of your references and citations, and can prevent you from losing or misplacing an article! With one click, Zotero and Zotero Connector let you easily save journal article(s) from your browser to your library. That way, you can easily find them in the future when you want to cite them in your paper. To keep track of which articles you've looked at and where, it's a good idea to save them. When you're doing academic research, you'll probably encounter a lot of journal articles.
