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Citation Software

A basic guide to help users get started with Zotero, EndNote and alternative citation tools.

Creating a New Collection

By default, Zotero stores new citations in "My Library."  You can create multiple folders, or "collections" to organise your research by topic or assignment.

To create a new collection:

  1. Right click My Library and click New Collection. You can also click the 'New Collection' icon on the tool bar to create a new collection.  

  2. Give a name to the collection. 

  3. To add items to your collection from your library, simply drag and drop citations to place them into collections.  

You can create multiple folders to organise and manage your references. A reference can be in more than one collection at a time.