One of Zotero's greatest strengths is its integration with Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. In each supported word processor, Zotero's options are identical, but are presented differently. The following screen captures show how Zotero is presented in Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs.
Word: 
LibreOffice: 
GoogleDocs: 
For the rest of this guide, all examples will be using Microsoft Word unless otherwise noted.
Zotero supports only the DESKTOP version of Microsoft Word. The online version of Word, available through Illinois Tech's Microsoft 365 subscription, is NOT SUPPORTED. Citations and bibliographies cannot be added or edited in the online version of Word. However, citations and bibliographies add using the desktop version will display correctly in the online version.
Zotero has two ways of adding in-text citations to your papers:
Zotero also allows for multiple citations and editing citations.
In addition to adding in-text citations, Zotero can add dynamic bibliographies to you papers. These bibliographies will be automatically updated whenever you add or delete in-text citations for the body of your paper.
Zotero supports more than 10,000 different citation styles. It also allows you to change the style of your paper at any time and will update all in-text citations and the bibliography to match the new style.
This guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
