.. meta:: :description lang=en: Why and how to use Zotero to manage your bibliography :description lang=fr: Comment et pourquoi utiliser Zotero pour gérer sa bibliographie ########################################## Using Zotero to manage your bibliography ########################################## Presentation ------------ Concept ? ^^^^^^^^^ Idea: use a specialized software to manage your bibliography, and not crappy hand-made solutions or habits. A solution: `Zotero `_ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The official website of this project is `www.Zotero.org `_ (no surprise), and it is a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)! More information are `available on this page in English `_. And if needed, Wikipédia `also has interesting things to say `_. Plugins ? ^^^^^^^^^ It's quick and easy (and free) to download (`on this page `_): - `a plugin for the Firefox browser `_, to easily add any web-page (research or newspaper article, an `arXiv `_ or `a Google Scholar `_ page, etc) to your Zotero database, - the `same plugin, but for the Chrome browser `_, - a plugin for Microsoft® Word® or its open-source clones (OpenOffice or Libre Office), - and a `standalone Windows desktop program `_, as well as programs for both Linux and Mac OS X. More ? ^^^^^^ `Zotero`_ could also be used to easily insert a citation to one of your bibliographic reference, when writing a document with Word or OpenOffice / Libre Office, *without* even having to switch between apps or tabs. This cool feature `is presented here `_. `Zotero`_ also allows you to quickly convert your database to a `single BibTeX file `_, if you want to use `LaTeX `_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What about my use of Zotero? ---------------------------- *I have not really started to use it intensively*, so one of this page's purpose is to motivate me to do so… Zotero is a trustworthy software, very popular, simple and efficient. .. (c) Lilian Besson, 2011-2021, https://bitbucket.org/lbesson/web-sphinx/