When working on extensive research projects, you will need to collect, organize and format all your citations.
Use this Citation Helper library research guide to help you learn more about citation styles and the citation management softwares used at Rutgers to make citation simpler and more efficient.
Zotero is a citation management software designed to help you save, organize and format bibliographic citations that you find in databases or search engines. It's a free software that's easy to use and has plugins for your web browser and word processor (MS word or google drive) that automatically sense content that you wish to cite. In your web browser, Zotero will detect articles and materials for citation and proceed to manage and cite the sources in the zotero app. You can attach full pdfs or other notes to your citations! In MS Word, the Zotero plugin automatically generates style specific in text citations and bibliographies.
It automatically updates itself periodically to work with new online sources and new bibliographic styles.