Research Guides: Zotero: Cleaning Up & Customizing

Organizing & cleaning sources

Video on organizing and cleaning up source records in Zotero:

Adding citation styles

Video instructions on how to add citation styles in Zotero:

Zotero add-ons

An active community of Zotero users has developed a variety of plugins to provide enhancements, new features, and interfaces with other programs.

To install a plugin in Zotero, download its .xpi file to your computer. Then, in Zotero, click “Tools → Add-Ons”, then drag the .xpi for the plugin onto the Add-Ons window that opens.

Any add-ons shared here are "install at your own risk." We can make no guarantees about the safety or security around installing these add-ons.

Here are a few we've tried:

Zotero Citation Counts Add-on
The add-on by Erik Schnetter and Sam Lumley can auto-fetch citation counts for journal articles using various APIs, including Crossref, Inspire HEP, and Semantic Scholar. Google Scholar is not supported because automated access is against its terms of service.
Zotero Preview
This add-on by “dcartertod” adds a preview tab with a citation preview for the particular item in Zotero.

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