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- Decide whether to start with the Mozilla version or the standalone version.
- Install the version of your choice.
- Create an account on Zotero.org https://www.zotero.org/user/register to back-up and sync your citation collections.
- If you're not using the Mozilla version, install the helper app on the browser you do use.
- Begin importing citations
- Install the helper app for your word processor
- Begin inserting citations in your written documents
Gathering citations in Zotero:
There are a number of ways to gather citations and put them in your Zotero database
- Use the Zotero helper icon to import information from a database or book/article website (such as Google Books
- Look up the item by standard number (ISBN, DOI, etc) through Zotero
- Download and import citations in .RIS format from a database
- Type it in by hand