Citing
You can begin citing with Zotero by clicking the “Add/Edit Citation” () button. Pressing the button brings up the citation dialog.
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The citation dialog is used to select items from your Zotero library, and create a citation.
Start typing part of a title, the last names of one or more authors, and/or a year in the dialog box. Matching items will instantly appear below the dialog box.
To generate Bluebook citations with Zotero, you must first add the Bluebook style to your Zotero library: Open Zotero and go to Edit from the main menu. Select Preferences. Select Cite, located at the top of the Zotero preferences window. Click on the Styles tab. Click on the link to Get Additional Styles. Zotero can be integrated with Microsoft Word to generate both in-text citations and bibliographies within your text document using references from your Zotero library. The Word plugin is bundled with Zotero and should be installed automatically when you first start Zotero. On every future occasion, when Zotero tries to update citations, e.g. When you change a citation style or if you have corrected item data in Zotero, it can automatically create the correct citation using the information in the prefix/suffix field.
Matching items will be shown for each library in your Zotero database (My Library and any groups you are part of). Items you have already cited in the document will be shown at the top of the list under “Cited”.
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Select an item by clicking on it or by pressing Enter/Return when it is highlighted. The item will appear in the dialog box in a shaded bubble. Press Enter/Return again to insert the citation and close the Add Citation box.
In the Add Citation dialog box, you can click on the bubble for a cited item, then click “Open in My Library (or the Group Library's name)” to view the item in Zotero. Items that are orphaned (not connected to any items in your Zotero database) will not have an “Open in My Library” button. Orphaned items can exist if they were inserted by a collaborator from their My Library or a group you don't have access to or if you they were deleted from your Zotero library.