For non French speakers : Writing a PhD dissertation bibliography with Zotero

Using Zotero to collect, organize, share bibliographic references and create a bibliography.

A reference management software like Zotero is essential for scholarly writing. Zotero is an open source reference manager software, easy to use and which gathers all your bibliographic references in one database. It supports the easy downloading of bibliographic citations, but also the downloading and indexing of full text, capture of web pages, and addition of research notes.

Program :
- Presentation of Zotero

- Downloading Zotero (it work as a Firefox plugin or the Zotero Standalone version can run as a separate application and plugs into the browser of your choice, like Google Chrome, Safari)

- Collecting bibliographic citations from online bibliographic databases (ScienceDirect, Web of Science...) and from Google Scholar

- Organizing your Zotero Library

- Using advanced Zotero tools: managing pdf, setting up of a link resolver, sharing of bibliographic references, synchronizing a Zotero Library

- Exporting references to a word processing software (Word, LibreOffice) and creating a bibliography or exporting references as BibTeX files.

PLEASE COME, IF POSSIBLE, WITH YOUR OWN LAPTOP (limited number of fixed computers)

You may come with your personal computer if you use one these browsers : Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari. Zotero is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Master Zotero to write a PhD dissertation bibliography.

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