Hi, this video will demonstrate how to use the reference managing software Zotero. Zotero is an open source software, meaning that for individual users like you, it's free. Please note that this is a basic introductory video. If you're interested in the more complex and technical aspects, Zotero have produced some great tutorial videos that explore the multitude of other uses for the software. In this video I am going to show you how easy it is to add references to Zotero, read and make notes on them in the application, and then add in-text and end-of-text citations to your assignments. There are three ways to add a reference to Zotero. The first is really simple. You just capture the bibliographic data from a website. Take the conversation article we looked at a few lessons ago. We just click Here, and Zotero does the rest. Remember to double check all the details, though. However, if you've already downloaded the articles, as we have, there are two other ways to add documents to Zotero. One way, is just to add it by the DOI or ISBN number. Not all journal articles have DOIs. But if they do, this is a really easy way to import information. Here we can find the DOI from the article. I simply copy and paste it here and Zotero does the rest. Again, double check all the details. The third way to add a reference to Zotero is manually. This is useful for other sources, such as books or when Zotero doesn't scrape enough details. Here, we just type in all the necessary information. For a general article, we need to know the title of the article. The author or authors' names. The journal name, the volume number, the Issue number, the page numbers and the year or date of publication. And then when you've added an article you can make notes on it. When you want to use an Internet save, all you need to do is ensure that the Word plug-in is installed. You can do this by going to the Zotero website and downloading it. Once you're in Word, adding in-text citations is easy. Say you want to paraphrase the quote we just read for this paragraph. Using information prominent style, meaning that the name and date will need to be in brackets at the end of the paraphrase, is easy. You simply click where you want the reference to go, type in the last name or title of the article, and then insert. But what about if you need to add an author prominent reference where only the date needs to be included? Easy, we enter the details and then simply click on the name and select Suppress Author. And lastly, what about when you need to add a quote? Again, you enter the details, then click on the author's name. And enter the page number here. Click OK, and it's done for you. As you can see, adding in-text references is really easy. So what about end of text references? When you finish, you can simply import bibliography, and your references will appear below. And, if you need to change the referencing style that's easy too. Here we've used APA 6. But I can change that to Harvard style, or even IEEE. Of course, Zotero has a lot of other uses that you will become familiar with as you use it. This is just a very small taster for you.