Research Guides: Gerontology: Citation Management

Managing Citations & Digital Files

Having an effective strategy to manage your research is essential. You can use a citation management tool to organize citations to sources, collect digital files such as full-text PDFs, and cite sources automatically when writing papers.

The library provides support for Zotero, a free open-source citation manager.

Zotero

Why should you use Zotero?

It's free, so you'll be able to use it forever, even after you leave the university.
It saves your digital files to your computer and backs them up in the cloud.
It works seamlessly with Microsoft Word.
It can also be used with Google Docs, LibreOffice, LaTeX, and other text editors.
It automates a lot of processes, like attaching PDFs, that require extra steps in RefWorks.

Using Zotero at UMass Dartmouth
Everything you need to know to get started with and become an expert user of Zotero.