Zotero App For Mac

I’m going to start by giving some great news: Zotero is now available on Google Docs as a default App. This is an EXCELLENT resource for those of you who want to create research papers in Google Docs with Zotero!

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Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you're searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.

Background

Zotero is an open source, free, bibliographic management system created by The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and the New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University whose purpose is to democratize history with new technology and tools. The RRCHNM also created the open-source browser, Firefox (which, because it is open source, should ONLY be downloaded from the Mozilla Foundation website!).

Why We Use Zotero

Zotero is one of the most useful tools you can have to make research papers. It is an Open Source, FREE tool to make citations and bibliographies in ANY STYLE. With Zotero you can:

• keep track of multiple research projects,
• create bibliographies in many different styles,
• create citations, and
• automatically create Works Cited and Bibliographies for papers

This is not all Zotero can do, but it is a good start!!

Here’s the basics from GSU Librarian and Zotero Specialist, Jason Puckett:

If you want to watch the entire WebEx Seminar Given by Jason Puckett, Click HERE.

In order to use Zotero, you must download two components of the program:

1. Zotero Stand-Alone (this lives on your computer)
2. Zotero Connector (this lives on your browser.)

These are the step-by-step instructions to downloading Zotero into any computer.

Step 1: Check Your Computer & Browser

Zotero can be downloaded into the following computers:

✅ Apple,

✅ Windows (including Surface tablets),

✅ Linux.

Zotero will not work on:

❌ Chromebooks

❌ Mobile Devices, or

❌ iPads.

If you need to, you can use any lab computer at the college to run Zotero. Zotero has been white-listed by the IT department for installation on GSU campus computers.

You can use Zotero with Safari, Chrome, and Firefox browsers. It WILL NOT WORK with Microsoft Explorer or Edge.

Step 2: Close MS Word

Zotero will install a connector into MS Word. Therefore, in order for this connector to install, you must close MS Word before installing Zotero.

Step 3: Go to Zotero Website

The address is: https://www.zotero.org

Step 4: Install Zotero for Windows, Mac, or Linux

On the Zotero website, click on the scary-looking red “Download” button.

Zotero will automatically prompt you to download the proper version for your computer. If you have a Windows machine, it will prompt you to download Zotero for Windows. If you have a Mac, it will prompt you to download Zotero for Mac, etc. Zotero will also automatically prompt you to download the correct connector for the browser you are currently using.

REMEMBER: ZOTERO DOES NOT WORK WITH MICROSOFT EDGE OR INTERNET EXPLORER. IF YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY AT THIS POINT, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT USING MICROSOFT EDGE OR MICROSOFT EXPLORER BROWSERS.

Step 5: Install Zotero for Mac, Windows, or Linux

Click the blue “Download” button. Zotero should download quickly (it usually downloads in 90 seconds or less).

Keep hitting “Install” until the Zotero has installed successfully.

Often, after installing, Zotero will open immediately.

Step 6: Go Back to the Zotero.org Website to Download Browser Connector

The browser connector works with Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. If you can’t get the connector to work, or if you have difficulties with this step, please double-check to make sure you are using one of the three browsers that works with Zotero. If you are not using one of those three browsers, please click on (or download) a compatible browser before attempting to install the Zotero Browser Connector.

YOU MUST HAVE BOTH ZOTERO AND THE ZOTERO CONNECTOR!

Resources

A “Collection” in Zotero is a folder you create in Zotero to associate with your research project. It is very easy to create a Collection. In the Zotero Application on your Computer, look for a small folder icon with a green plus sign, and click the file icon:

Zotero will then prompt you to name your collection. For the purpose of your first Zotero activity, please name your first collection EXAMPLE:

Once you have created your collection, Zotero will make a folder with your project or research name (in this case, you should see a folder named “EXAMPLE.”)

Now that you have created an EXAMPLE collection, you are ready to begin populating your collection with sources. Usually this occurs over time as you are research a topic, but because we are learning, we will be populating the EXAMPLE collection with a large number of sources using the GSU Library to practice.

Here are the step-by-step instructions:

1. Make sure the Zotero App is open on your computer.
2. Click on the EXAMPLE collection to highlight it.
3. Open the Browser where you have installed the Zotero Connector. You should see a small icon of a page, or an icon with a Z on it next to your Browser Toolbar.
   1. If you do not have the Zotero Connector Installed, please go to Zotero.org and click “Install Connector.” If you are using Chrome, you will see the button like this:
4. Go to the GSU Library.
5. Enter the words, “College to Career” in the search bar at the GSU Library.

6. A new window with your results should open up. After it opens, click the Zotero folder next to your toolbar (NOT the one in the blue stripe!!!):

7. A window will pop up with a list of the selections on the page. As you can see, the same titles exist in the pop up and in the search results. Now click “select all” and “OK” to add all the selections to your Zotero Collection EXAMPLE:

8.Minimize your browser window to see the open Zotero Application on your computer. You should see that the EXAMPLE collection has been populated with your selections from the library (be patient, this may take a minute to happen).

Zotero can be used to create a simple bibliography once you have entered a number of sources in a collection. Please follow the directions to make your first Zotero Bibliography!

1. Open the Zotero Application on computer.
2. Click on EXAMPLE to open the collection.
3. Click on any source in the collection to highlight it.
4. After you have highlighted an item in your collection, click [Control A] on PC or [Command A] on Apple to highlight the whole list.
5. Right Click and choose “Create Bibliography from Items.”
6. Now open a new document in MS Word.
7. Type “Works Cited” and center it at the top of the page.
8. On a new line, right click and paste (if you are on a PC, chose the first option “Keep Source Formatting”).
9. You should have a simple bibliography that has been formatted correctly: double spaced, alphabetical order, hanging indent, in MLA 8th edition style.

In the Zotero Application on your computer, open the EXAMPLE collection.

The tabs are labled “Info,” “Notes,” “Tags” and “Related.” Each tab is helpful for research.

To add additional information to the Info tab, click on the source, then check and see how much information you can fill in.

Click on the blank (or incomplete) boxes of information and fill them in. For example, if I gather information from a website, I might need to find the author, date the article was produced, and the name of the website if Zotero is unable to locate that information from the unstructured data.

Zotero is surprisingly adept at citing almost anything you find on the web. You just need to make sure that the correct information is gathered about each source. For example, if you use a YouTube video, you will gather information about the director and/or producer of the film. If you gather information about a piece of art, you may need information about the artist and medium. That information is added to the “INFO” tab in Zotero.

If you added something and forgot to get the details, it is not a problem. Simply click on the source, and Zotero will open the browser window for the source. You can then gather any information you need!

In your browser, search for information. Once results come up, you must choose one of the sources in order to upload it into Zotero. (Zotero only makes file folders for structured data.)

For example, here is a search for a “YouTube: College to Career.” Zotero, through the Zotero Connector to my Browser, gives me an icon to upload the source as a video reference:

When you use Zotero for sources outside the library or Google Scholar, you may need to insert specifics into the Zotero “Info” section.

Let’s say you want to do an interview. If you want to add it to Zotero, click on the green PLUS BUTTON and choose the type of material from the list. When you click on the source type, you can then add all the information you need to add for Zotero to create citations and bibliographic references for your research.

You can easily add books to Zotero that are not in the library by going to Amazon.com and adding the book there.

The most important use of Zotero is through the Zotero Connector for Microsoft Word. Using the integration for Zotero, you can easily cite your sources and build a bibliography for your research paper using Zotero.

Once you have a populated collection in Zotero, you are ready to use it in Microsoft word. Open Microsoft Word in your computer. At the top of the page, you should see a tab labeled “Zotero.”

If you don’t see the tab, it may be that you installed Zotero while MS Word was Open. Please shut down word and try reinstalling Zotero.

If you are on an older Apple Computer, you may find the answer to the missing tab here:

To play with Zotero in Word, please download the following short word document:

In the document, you will find instructions for using Zotero in Word. Take a moment to play with it!

What is an Annotated Bibliography?

When you create a large research project, it is easy to get lost in the details. Sometimes you forget which source you were planning to use, or you forget the source’s importance to your project. It is important to keep organized notes to keep your project on track.

The Annotated Bibliography is a formal way to keep track of research sources, or to share those research sources with other scholars. Often you are assigned an Annotated Bibliography as part of a larger research project.

The Importance of Formatting in Annotated Bibliographies

Because Annotated Bibliographies are for research and between researchers, it is important to use the correct formatting so that you and others can keep the information straight. If your Annotated Bibliography is not formatted correctly, your grade will suffer. It has to be PERFECT or it is useless.

FORMATTING COUNTS!

In the Annotated Bibliography, sources are in hanging indent. Annotations are indented on the first line beneath the source, and the entire paragraph of annotation is indented by .5 inch on the left.

For this assignment you will be creating two short (1-2 sentence) paragraphs beneath the source. The first paragraph is a summary of the source. The second paragraph tells how useful the source is to your research topic.

This is how you should begin:

• Establish a new collection for your research project.
• Populate the collection with at least 10 sources related to “Careers for (add your own) majors.”
• Once you have at least 10 sources, create a simple bibliography with Zotero.
• Open a new MS Word document, and type and center “Annotated Bibiliography” at the top of the page.
• Immediately below your title, paste the 10 item bibliography.

Create a Template

1. Place your cursor immediately after the first source citation in your simple bibliography. Hit “enter” to go to a new line.
2. On that line, type (or copy and paste from here): The first paragraph is a summary of the source. It is 1-2 sentences long.
3. Now hit “enter” again and go to a new line. On that line type (or copy and paste from here): The second paragraph tells how you would use this source in your research. It should also be 1-2 sentences long.
4. Now we will format those two two-sentence paragraphs to make the template.
5. Highlight both short paragraphs.
6. Open the paragraph formatting table (On PC, go to the HOME Tab, and click on the small square at the corner of the “Paragraph” tab. On Mac, go to the top of the page until you see “format” appear. Under format, choose “Paragraph.”)

In the opened Format Paragraph Box under “Indentation,” change Special to “First Line Indent.”8. After the two short paragraphs move over, go to the HOME tab again, and “Increase Indent” by using the small arrow on the right.

9. When you are done, the two short paragraphs should be formatted with the first-line indented, and the entire paragraph moved to the right by five spaces.

10. Now highlight both paragraphs one again and right-click to copy.

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11. After you have copied the paragraphs, go to the end of the next source and hit “enter.”

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12. Directly below that source, click control/command-V to paste under that source.

13. Eliminate the extra space between the end of the template paragraphs and the next source.

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14. Now, go to the end of the next source, click “enter,” and paste the paragraphs. Omit the extra space.

15. Continue until all sources have formatted template paragraphs beneath.

You have now created a template to complete the annotated bibliography. All you have to do to finish your annotated bibliography is highlight the first paragraph under the source and type your summary of the source there. Then, highlight the second paragraph and type how this source is useful to your research.

This is an example of how the Annotated Bibliography should look:

Complete the Annotations, and submit to the Annotated Bibliography Dropbox, and Post to Portfolium.

• Has your problem been solved? I've just found the same erreur. Thank you.
• We're looking into a problem with Zotero 5.0.67 and Word 2011. We'll have an update soon.
• @hamidz For your immediate problem, you can install the previous version of Zotero so that you can finish your paper until the bug is fixed. https://www.zotero.org/download/client/dl?channel=release&platform=mac&version=5.0.66
  
• This is now fixed in Zotero 5.0.67.1. Sorry for the trouble.
• I had the same problem. Thanks for the quick fix. However, this time I could insert my citation in my text but then Zotero crashed... Will see is it occurs again.
  Word Mac 2011, OS 10.14.5
• edited June 15, 2019

  Same here:
  Inserting the citation seemed to work, but then I tried to insert a bibliography below, and it showed the temporary field for a moment, then 'Zotero quit unexpectedly'.
  (This is in a new document.)
  Tested a bit more, and this seems consistent: editing citations appears to work (although I don't know if they might be corrupted somehow), but then adding a bibliography just makes the Zotero app window immediately disappear in the background followed by the error message.
  Note that I cannot generate a report ID because it crashes before I can do anything. (Is there a way to around that, if it would help?)
  @OC34, are we having the same problem specifically for inserting a bibliography, or is yours crashing while editing citations? I haven't tested enough to know if it might also crash for other reasons, but it seemed to only be for the bibliography for me.
• @djross3 Yes it looks like it is the same problem. I started a new document , could apparently insert a new citation but when I tried inserting a bibliography Zotero crashed. It looks like the problem is now creating or updating the bibliography.
• edited June 15, 2019

  Hello,
  The same error message appears on my screen.
  'Zotero experienced an error updating your document. Would you like to view troubleshooting instructions?'
  It appeared after a manipulation error on my part: I tried to insert a quote while the cursor was in the footnote.
  Everything crashed. Like you, I followed the debugging instructions, but nothing works. I uninstalled the plugin, reinstalled it, idem nothing does.
  It had never happened to me after 6 years of use. Unfortunately, this happens when I also have to finish an article. How did you manage to get out of it?
  
• edited June 15, 2019

  @Tahles -- The only immediate solution is reverting to an older version of Zotero. See bwiernik's post above:
  https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/334001/#Comment_334001
• edited June 15, 2019
• OK, please try 5.0.67.2, which we believe should fix the bibliography issue. Thanks for your patience.
• edited June 15, 2019

  No, it's still crashing on the bibliography, and now seems like also sometimes when editing a citation.
  There was also a weird bug with the field in Word: I tried adding a page number, so from (Smith 2015) to (Smith 2015:9) and somehow the Word field split so that (Sm was plain text, and ith 2015:9) remained in the field. This of course generated an error when doing something else that this cite had been manually modified. It's *possible* I somehow clicked oddly while editing this, but I've never seen a field split in half before while editing it.
  Thanks for your work in resolving this! I'm getting a very unreliable feeling about something that was updated. Is there some way to know that the final update is really working and won't corrupt citations in the document?
  I can test more if needed, just let me know.
  Note: I'm testing this by restarting both Word and Zotero, but not my whole computer. If that would help, I can try that too.
• Hi I'm using Zotero 5.0.67 too and Word for MAC 11 and have exactly the same problem as Hamidz - what is the solution?
• I am still getting the error message that Zotero is experiencing an error updating my document.
• I warn you about installing the new update 5.0.67.2. I just updated and successfully edited a citation after having had the described problem all day. Then suddenly all the changes made in my document visible in track change disappeared and the edited citation as well, and Zotero shut down unexpected.
  I look forward to hearing from you again.
  
• Sorry, that was just a build mistake — 5.0.67.2 didn't actually include the bibliography fix and was identical to 5.0.67.1. Please try again with 5.0.67.3.
• edited June 15, 2019

  OK, 5.0.67.3 does seem to be working with some basic testing.
  Is there any more rigorous or specific testing you would suggest to confirm it works consistently? Or, if it seems to be working, does that mean it's reliable to use for important documents? (If it's just an interface issue, that's fine, but I want to be sure the resulting document isn't corrupt.)
  Thanks for your fast work addressing this.
• For context, certain changes and updates to the codebase related to the plugin for Word 2016 unfortunately introduced some bugs in the plugin version for Word 2011. This has indeed been an interface issue, no document corruption is expected and the reliability should be the same as before 5.0.67.
• @adomasven and others, thanks! I'll let you know if I notice anything unusual going forward, but that sounds fine.
• I'll try the 67.3 update and let you know if I still have a problem. Thanks for resolving quickly these issues!
• Many thanks to all of you! 67.3 seems to be working fine.
• I am having the same problem. How and from where do we download '67.3'?
• Or just Help -> Check for Updates in Zotero. Zotero should also prompt you automatically to update.
• edited June 16, 2019

  @bwiernik thanks for the advice, @dstillman and others thank you for resolving this so quickly. Much appreciated!
• Thanks for the advice -- Mac user here, and the update to the most recent version got stalled. Sticking with 5.066 for now.
• edited June 18, 2019

  @lauragayle: This was fixed days ago, and you shouldn't stay on an old version. If the update isn't going through, the first thing to try is just restarting Zotero. If that doesn't help, you can just install 5.0.67.3 from the download page.
• We are using LO 6.2.4.2. Here the problem 'Zotero experienced an error updating your document....' also appears this week after the update to 5.0.67.
  To be sure, I downloaded the latest version, but that doesn't help; Stepping back to 5.0.66 resolves the problem.
• @arjan1234 are you using custom templates? If so, could you post to this thread and send us over a template that makes things broken? If not, could you start a new thread? Word issues are different from LibreOffice.
• The incompatibility between Zotero 5.0.67 and Word 2011 was fixed in Zotero 5.0.67.3, available via Help → 'Check for Updates…', so I'm going to close this thread. Please start new threads for any other issues you're experiencing.