Appendix A — Additional features

Additional Zotero features Plugins

A.1 Adding Plugins

Plugins are programs that work with Zotero to offer additional functionality or help Zotero work with other programs. They are community-built and managed. The source code is typically hosted on Github .

You can see a list of available plugins here.

A.1.1 Installing Plugins

Follow the link from the Plugins documentation page and download (and save) the .xpi file for your chosen plugin.

  • In Zotero go to Tools ➜ Plugins
  • Click the gear icon in the top left corner to Install Add on From File
  • Locate Add on file you downloaded
  • Enable your plugin via switch
  • Restart Zotero!

A.1.2 Recommended plugins

To set up Bibtext so that it can be used most efficiently with Quarto and Rmarkdown documents use this guide

  • If you are a latex holdout and want to create more usable citation keys, try installing Bibtex.
  • To rename all the pdfs in your library automatically, use zotero-attanger
  • To sync your library with the reserouces compiled by the great folks at scite.
  • To identify duplicate items in your library, use zoplicate.
  • If you want to extract all the references from an existing word document, use Reference Extractor

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A.2 Use and customise keyboard shortcuts

Zotero supports many keyboard input options both in the main program and within your word processor.

A.3 Use Zotero to receive RSS feeds

If you have journals you want to follow regularly, you can receive information via RSS feed in Zotero. See more on the RSS Feeds page.

A.4 Zotero-based help & support

  • Official Docs - Quick links to guides for all common uses of Zotero

  • Knowledge base - An FAQ of sorts

  • Forums - If you’re encountering a issue, chances are someone else has dealt with the same thing before