Title: Cornerstone 5: Collecting and Citing Sources

Introduction

Cornerstone 5:

Collecting & Citing Sources

Keeping track of all your sources can be frustrating and overwhelming—but with a little bit of organization, managing sources can be a breeze!

In this activity, you will learn how to auto-generate your bibliography in virtually any citation style, keep track of your sources, and more! This workshop will show you how Zotero can help save and organize your research sources.

By the end of this workshop, you'll be able to:

- Install Zotero and create a Zotero account
- Save and organize your sources
- Quickly generate a bibliography in your preferred citation style

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Instructions

- Watch the interactive video and answer the questions
- Complete the reflection activity
- Essential: Click "Export Text" to generate a copy of your work, and then submit (upload?) it for credit!

Complete all of the activities in this section to finish the workshop and earn your "Prudent Planner" certification!

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What is Zotero?

Zotero is a free software application that helps you:

- Keep track of your information while you seach for sources
- Create citations while you write
- Generate a formatted bibliography in any citation style

It works with books, articles, newspapers, videos, photographs, audio recordings, and more!

Optional: Check out this quick video tour of Zotero's key features!

Setting up Zotero

1. Create your free Zotero account.

2. Download and install Zotero Standalone.

3. Add your username and password to Zotero Standalone to sync your account.

4. Add the browser extensions for your favorite browsers.

Optional: Watch these detailed video instructions for more help!

Download

Great job!

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Now, let's learn how to save different types of sources!

Saving Sources

Saving Sources to your Zotero Collection

Watch these three videos and follow the steps before continuing.

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At the end of this video, you will be asked to follow these steps, so watch carefully!

Press play to continue.

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Take a few minutes to search for one of your favorite books and add it to your Zotero collection.

Press play when finished.

Choose the correct statement.

At the end of this video, you will be asked to follow these steps, so watch carefully!

Press play to continue.

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Take a few minutes to find some articles using an academic database and save them to your Zotero collection.

Press play when finished.

Choose the correct statement.

At the end of this video, you will be asked to follow these steps, so watch carefully!

Press play to continue.

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Take a few minutes to experiment with saving newspaper articles, blog posts, and social media posts to your Zotero collection.

Press play when finished.

Choose the correct statement.

Saving Books and More to your Zotero Collection

Saving Articles to your Zotero Collection

Saving Newspaper Articles and Blog Posts to your Zotero Collection

Organizing Sources

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1. Click the new collection icon in the upper left hand corner.

2. Give your new collection a name.

3. To add subcollections, right-click your collection folder and select "New Subcollection."

4. You can organize the items in your Zotero library by dragging and dropping them into collection folders.

Bibliography

Creating a Bibliography

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1. Select the sources you would like to include in your bibliography by holding down the control key and clicking on each one.

2. Right-click your selection and select "Create Bibliography."

3. Pick your citation format, select "Bibliography" as the output mode and "Copy to clipboard" as the output method.

4. Paste the bibliography into your document!

Activity: Creating a Bibliography

Creating a Bibliography

Using the MLA (Modern Language Association) citation style, create a bibliography with one book and one scholarly article.

Use the Elsevier-Harvard (with titles) citation style to create a bibliography with one tweet, one YouTube video, and one newspaper article.

Activity: Creating a Bibliography 2

Creating a Bibliography

Finally, create a bibliography in the citation style of your choice using your own selected sources!

Which citation style did you choose?

Paste your bibliography here!

Zotero Tips

Our Favorite Zotero Tips

Check out these quick tips:

- Taking notes in Zotero
- Importing PDFs and Extracting Metadata

...or skip ahead to finish the tutorial!

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Tip: Taking Notes

Taking Notes

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1. Click on the note icon in the top menu bar and select "New Standalone Note."

2. Write your note in the text entry panel.

Tip: Importing PDFs

Importing PDFs

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1. Drag a PDF file from your computer into Zotero's window to add it to your Zotero folders.

2. Right click on the PDF and select "Retrieve Metadata" from the drop down menu.

Export

Way to go!

Remember to click "Export Text" to save a copy of your work!

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