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Zotero has guides for using it in Google Docs, as well as for the plugins it offers for Microsoft Word and LibreOffice. How can I use Zotero with Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or LibreOffice? If you have the references in a reference manager, you can also export them from this program to a file format for exchanging bibliographic metadata, such as RIS or BibTeX, and then import this file into Zotero. Importing bibliographies can be done with Reference Extractor for Microsoft Word '.docx' documents that haveВ Zotero (or Mendeley) citation fields that were inserted with the Word plugins from these citation management tools (CMTs). How can I import bibliographies from text files (such as Microsoft Word documents or PDFs) into Zotero? You can include subcollections by clicking in the collections pane and pressing the '+' key.

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To see which collections an item is in, select the item and hold down either the 'Option' key (on Mac OS X), the 'Control' key (on Windows), or the 'Alt' key (on Linux), which will highlight all the collections that contain the item selected. How can I see which collections an item is in? You can click the triangle to the left of the new author field to change it to an 'Editor' line. You can add an editor by clicking on the '+' sign on the 'Author' line in the right column, which will create an additional 'Author' line. To add a book chapter from an edited volume, click on the green 'new item' button and select вЂњBook Section.вЂќ You will see both a вЂњTitleвЂќ field for the chapter title and a separate вЂњBook TitleвЂќ field for the book title.

How can I add a book chapter from an edited volume to my Zotero library? You can do this by creating multiple Zotero profiles.

How can I have multiple Zotero accounts on the same computer?

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You can also store your Zotero data directory on an external hard drive and use this to move your Zotero data between computers or run a copy of Zotero directly from a portable drive. You can use Zotero Sync to access your Zotero library from multiple computers. How can I access my Zotero library from different computers? It is also possible to back up Zotero data by doing the following: locate your Zotero data, close Zotero, and then copy your entire directory to a backup location, ideally on another storage device. Zotero strongly recommends regularly and frequently backing up your library, ideally by using an automatic backup utility to back up your hard drive to an external device. For more information, see the documentation about how Zotero support works.

Posting to the forums: After you create an account, read the forum guidelines, and review the procedures for reporting problems, you can post to the forums yourself.

Searching the forums: Check to see if your problem has been noted (and possibly resolved) in the Zotero forums.

Issues with file handling (PDFs opening in the wrong application, etc.).

Issues with Zotero data (library missing, restoring from a backup, etc.).

Zotero also maintains troubleshooting pages that are specific to certain problems:

Checking the troubleshooting pages: Zotero maintains a Knowledge Base through which you can search for the problem affecting you.

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If you are not running the latest version, upgrade Zotero.

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This is done by selecting 'About Zotero' from the Zotero menu on a Mac or from the Help menu on a Windows or Linux computer.

Updating Zotero: First, check to see which version of Zotero you are running.

If you choose not to automatically sync, you will have to remember to manually sync your library.Zotero recommends taking the following steps to troubleshoot problems:

(You'll know this is happening because the sync icon will be spinning.)

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This way, when you get home and open up the Zotero app it will automatically download the new items that you saved on the other computer at the library. In the Zotero preferences, the default is to automatically sync your local library with the information on the servers. How will all of the citations you added at the library get to your computer? By syncing your library. Later, at home, you open up the Zotero application on your personal computer. Since you're not using the desktop app, all of the items you save are actually saving to the servers. As you work, you save items by clicking the icon in the browser. You're doing research on a library computer, and you've added the Zotero connector to the browser and set it to save citations without using the desktop app. Syncing your library is useful if you work on more than one device.

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