[One Speaker] 

[The Zotero application is open on the screen.]

Speaker: This video is going to teach you how to use Zotero in your paper. Now that you have saved articles, so I have these two articles saved in Zotero and Zotero is up and running [the cursor points to the two articles in the BYU-Idaho folder], you always have to make sure it's up and running, I can open up my paper. [She brings a Word document onto the screen with a typed paper.] 

So here is my paper, part of a paper that I've written, so I want to add the references, so here's one where I need to add a reference. So I'm going to put my cursor at the end of the sentence before the period where I want to add the reference [she does this], and then I'm going to click here on Zotero. [She clicks on the “Zotero” menu item at the top of the Word document.] And I'm going to say, “Add/Edit Citation. [She clicks on this menu Item that appears in the Zotero menu, and a window appears with Citation setting and information.] 

Now the first thing that Zotero is going to ask you it's going to say what document preferences do you have? How do you want to cite this? So what you're going to choose is the APA style right here, American Psychological Association, and just say “OK” [the cursor points to this option, selects it, then selects “OK”]. Then the next thing it brings up is this red box here [she drags a narrow red window with the Zotero symbol onto the screen] and it wants to know what citation you want.

So that's why it's a good idea sometimes to have Zotero open so I can see this is my article that I want. [She brings the Zotero application back on the screen and selects an article and it’s information to double-check.] And it's by Malik. So, I'm just going to type in “Malik” here [she navigates back to the Zotero red window and types it in the search], and it finds my reference for me right away [a drop-down appears with the article name]. I click on that reference, and then I just hit ‘return’ [she does this]. And now it has automatically put that reference in my paper for me [the cursor points to the appropriate citation automatically placed in the text].

Now let's say I need another reference that goes here [the cursor clicks to the end of another sentence]. So again, I'm going to click on “Add/Edit Citation” [she does this and the red citation window appears] and this time, I'm going to use my second article here, you remember, here's my second one [she drags the Zotero application on the screen for a moment to show the article, then pulls it away again] and this time I'm not going to put in the author name, I'll put in “dietary” and I'll see what comes up. [She types “dietary” into the search, and many articles appear in a drop-down menu.] You can see I have other articles that I saved on “dietary”, but I know this is the one that I want, the dietary patterns, and I'm going to click ‘return’. [She clicks on the appropriate article title then clicks ‘return’ on her keyboard.] And that is all automatically put in for me.

Let's say, however, what happens if I didn't do this right and this reference actually needs to be up here, as well. [She scrolls further up the document and clicks at the end of another sentence.] All you have to do is put your cursor where it needs to be, find the reference again, and Zotero doesn't have any problem putting that in there for you. [She clicks on “Add/Edit Citation”, types in “dietary” to find the right article, then hits ‘return’. The citation is placed in the document.] 

Now when I'm all finished, I can start a separate page, and this will be my references page. [She goes to the bottom of the document and types “References”.] At this point I'm going to click on “Add/Edit Bibliography”. [She does this.] When I click on that, the references are automatically added for me. [The full citation is automatically placed for all cited materials in the document]. So here you can see it puts it in alphabetical order like it's supposed to be, it does the formatting correctly, and it has the full reference. This is just a much easier way of citing your paper.

Now let's say I had another one that I have to add after I've already done this. So let's put in one that I’ve had already, a different one, I'll do it in “dietary” again and I’ll do this one instead. I'll put that in there. [She adds another citation within the paper following the steps she had taught. She scrolls back down to the References list.] Now you can see that it's automatically updated for me. If it doesn't automatically update, then you can refresh. [She clicks the “Refresh” button found in the Zotero menu.] When you refresh it, it looks through all the paper again to see if there's another reference that needs to be included.

I hope you'll find that this is an easier way for you to manage your references. Please reach out to me if you have any questions.

[End of video.]