ME 215 - Engineering Materials & Processes

Welcome to the Zotero self-paced tutorial.

Go through each of the steps to learn how to use this open source citation manager. 

Each step has a video and an accompanying exercise: 

1. Downloading Zotero and creating an account
2. Creating a collection
3. Adding an article and adding articles in bulk
4. Creating a bibliography 
5. Cite while you write 

If you have any questions or problems with the tutorial or using Zotero, please contact us.

Why use Zotero?

• Saves time

• Saves typing

• Helps you stay organized -- easier to avoid plagiarism

• Open source! Free!

• Developed by nonprofit: Center for History and New Media at George Mason University