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Perhaps the information the connector picked up from the webpage was incomplete or misspelled. When this happens, the save button will show a folder icon, as in the screen shot below.Ĭlicking this folder icon will open a window where you can select the items that you want to save to Zotero, like this:Įditing citations in Zotero is sometimes necessary. This happens sometimes with databases or services like Google Scholar. Occasionally the system encounters multiple citations (or at least, expects to). You will then need to manually add whatever additional information you want to be included in your record (for example, author, date of publication, etc.) If you click the save button on webpages, Zotero will import the page as a “Web Page” item with a title, URL, and access date. Webpages do not provide metadata that Zotero can recognize and this will be indicated by a gray webpage icon, rather than an icon for a book or journal article. Sometimes you may want to reference a website, webpage, or blog. In this screenshot below, you can see that it has saved information about the article, a snapshot of the website, and even grabbed the PDF! If you're using Chrome and you're on the page for a journal article, then the save button will look like this: If you're using Chrome and you're on the page for a book, then the save button will show a book icon like this:
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Here is an example of what the extension button looks like in Firefox. Then click the Zotero extension button, and Zotero will do all the work for you, saving information about this item to your library. This could be a library catalog, a database, Google scholar, or even an Amazon listing (in the case of books).
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To get a citation for a resource, such as a book or journal article, first go to the webpage for the item. If you need to, you can later edit the entry, but it's pretty accurate as-is! If the item's listing includes a PDF, Zotero will automatically add that as well. The browser extension scrapes bibliographic metadata from the web page of a resource and adds it to your library. There are versions available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. The easiest way to add a citation to your library is by using Zotero Connector, the browser extension.