Adding Items to Zotero provides detailed explanations on how to bring in different sources to your Zotero program. They include:
Some citation styles, such as APA, require the use of sentence case for titles (e.g., “This is sentence case”). Others, like the Chicago Manual of Style and Modern Language Association (MLA), require title case (“This is Title Case”).
Tip: Store titles in sentence case in your Zotero library and let Zotero automate the conversion to title case if necessary. Zotero will also automatically capitalize the subtitle for styles that require it.
The image GIF demonstrates the steps listed above. Refresh to play the GIF.
Use the Zotero browser connector to capture citation information and download web pages or one or more records and files into your Zotero library. The icon will change depending on the source.
Use the database "Send to" or "Export" option to directly download records into Zotero. The steps below demonstrate with EBSCOhost but are generally applicable for most databases.
Get the ISBN, DOI, PubMed ID, arXiv ID, or ADS Bibcode.
Click the Add Item by Identifier button ( in Zotero 6) in the toolbar, type or paste in the identifier, and press Enter/Return.
To add more than one item, separate identifiers by spaces, commas, or line breaks.
The figure shows Zotero 7 with DOI entered.
Zotero "Find Full Text" feature searches for available PDFs. Try this first and if it does not work, try Library Lookup.
Library Lookup locates physical or online items in the online library catalog that you have added in settings. You can select Temple University libraries' OpenURL resolver or other library's from the Advanced tab of the Zotero preferences (or the General tab in Zotero 7).
The instructions below are for creating an RSS feed in PubMed and ProQuest databases. Check other platforms for RSS Feed instructions. For more information and online Zotero documentation visit Feeds.
Step 1. Enter your search terms in PubMed and click Search. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) . (A proxy URL may not work)
On the results page, select Create RSS link, located below the search box.
Step 2. Enter a name. You will overwrite existing text. Name cannot include a symbol.
Leave the number of items to be shown as is or change. Click Create RSS.
Step 3. Click "Copy" to copy the RSS URL
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Step 4. Go to Zotero desktop
Zotero 6: Click on dark brown folder and select "New Feed" and "From URL".
Zotero 7: Click on File tab. Select New Library. Select "New Feed" and "From URL.
Step 5. Paste the RSS URL from PubMed into the top URL box. If you are successful, the Title box will show the name that you had created. Click Save. If you do not see anything in the Title, and you see proxy in the URL, try the search at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ without a proxy.
Step 1. Enter your search terms in ProQuest and click Search. On the results page, below the search box, toward the right, select "Save Search/alert link and select Create RSS feed.
Step 2. Enter a name in the "Name this Feed" box. You will overwrite existing text. You can leave the other settings as is or change. Click Create Feed.
Step 3. Copy the URL from "Your RSS feed" at the very top.
Step 4. Go to Zotero desktop.
Zotero 6: Click on dark brown folder and select "New Feed" and "From URL".
Zotero 7: Click on File tab. Select New Library. Select "New Feed" and "From URL."
Step 5. Paste URL into the top URL box. If you are successful, the Title box will show the name that you had created. Click Save.