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: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
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Using Zotero to manage your bibliography
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Presentation
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Concept ?
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Idea: use a specialized software to manage your bibliography, and not crappy hand-made solutions or habits.
A solution: `Zotero `_
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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 ?
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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 ?
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`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 `_.
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What about my use of Zotero?
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*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/