About Zotero

Zotero is a standalone software program that works with Firefox, Chrome and Safari. It allows users to:

• Create a databases of citations by easily selecting items from your browser
• Attach and organize your PDFs
• Sync your database to the cloud
• Share group libraries with others
• Create bibliographies in a variety of styles

How to use Zotero

• Zotero quick start guide

• Zotero tutorial videos 

• Zotero help documentation

• Add a citation style to Zotero

About Mendeley

Mendeley is a free citation and file management application. It allows you to:

• Extract metadata for each file, rename/move them, and sync across platforms.
• Tag files, organize them into folders, annotate, and share with others (including annotations/notes).
• Use the capabilities within Mendeley to generate a bibliography, or export bibliographic data to other citation management applications.

Mendeley Reference Manager and the Mendeley Cite add-in for Word is web-based and, therefore, incompatible with the University of Minnesota’s IT-supplied version of Office365. For temporary functionality, users can install the Mendeley Reference Manager Mendeley Cite add-in to Microsoft Word by first logging out of their UMN accounts.

We recommend that all Mendeley users switch to Zotero. Instructions for this are at: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import

How to use Mendeley