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-====== How to Use Zotero to Manage a Bibliography ======+====== How to use Zotero to manage a bibliography ======
  
 So, we all know that we have to cite sources, right? Citing is how we show our readers where we get our information and where to find out more about the topic. But the whole process of managing a bibliography is a lot of work. It's easy to let it slide. Reading new ideas and writing a new draft is much more fun than typing out a Works Cited list, not to mention changing it whenever you add or remove sources. And then there's proofreading it.  So, we all know that we have to cite sources, right? Citing is how we show our readers where we get our information and where to find out more about the topic. But the whole process of managing a bibliography is a lot of work. It's easy to let it slide. Reading new ideas and writing a new draft is much more fun than typing out a Works Cited list, not to mention changing it whenever you add or remove sources. And then there's proofreading it. 
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 You can add more than one citation to the output if you want to cite more than one source for the same fact or idea. When you have added all the citations you want, and added all the page numbers or other information to them, you press enter, and the plug outputs a citation and inserts it into the document at the cursor. Depending on your options in the Set Document Preferences dialog, you can edit this citation as normal text, but it is better to put your cursor in the citation and click the Zotero button 'Edit Citation'. This brings back the citation dialog for you to continue adding and removing citations.  You can add more than one citation to the output if you want to cite more than one source for the same fact or idea. When you have added all the citations you want, and added all the page numbers or other information to them, you press enter, and the plug outputs a citation and inserts it into the document at the cursor. Depending on your options in the Set Document Preferences dialog, you can edit this citation as normal text, but it is better to put your cursor in the citation and click the Zotero button 'Edit Citation'. This brings back the citation dialog for you to continue adding and removing citations. 
  
-===== Step 5: Inserting a Bibliography =====+===== Step 5: Inserting a bibliography =====
  
 So, say you have a complete draft and you're ready to print it out and revise it. You've added your citations already, and you want to add the bibliography (or works cited list) at the end. There's a Zotero button for this too, called 'Insert Bibliography' (a red list of lines). Write 'References' at the end of your document, insert a carriage return, and then click this button. If you've checked your database for completeness, then this bibliography will look pretty good already. You may notice at this stage that there's some missing information. For instance, you grabbed the bibliographic entry from Google Books for a book but it did not include the 'place' of the publisher. Don't just edit what's on the page now. Go back to the database and correct the entry. Then press the Zotero button 'Refresh' (arrows). Now the bibliography and the citations have been reformatted from the latest version of the database. It's really important to correct any errors in your citations and bibliography in your database, so that you can refresh and everything in your document will be updated. If you change the document and then later refresh the document from a new database – say you insert a new citation – then you'll lose the changes you made to the other entries in the document.  So, say you have a complete draft and you're ready to print it out and revise it. You've added your citations already, and you want to add the bibliography (or works cited list) at the end. There's a Zotero button for this too, called 'Insert Bibliography' (a red list of lines). Write 'References' at the end of your document, insert a carriage return, and then click this button. If you've checked your database for completeness, then this bibliography will look pretty good already. You may notice at this stage that there's some missing information. For instance, you grabbed the bibliographic entry from Google Books for a book but it did not include the 'place' of the publisher. Don't just edit what's on the page now. Go back to the database and correct the entry. Then press the Zotero button 'Refresh' (arrows). Now the bibliography and the citations have been reformatted from the latest version of the database. It's really important to correct any errors in your citations and bibliography in your database, so that you can refresh and everything in your document will be updated. If you change the document and then later refresh the document from a new database – say you insert a new citation – then you'll lose the changes you made to the other entries in the document. 
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 Takats, Sean, Dan Stillman, Simon Kornblith, and Faolan Cheslack-Postava. 2014. “Word Processor Integration.” Zotero. Accessed June 23. https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_integration. Takats, Sean, Dan Stillman, Simon Kornblith, and Faolan Cheslack-Postava. 2014. “Word Processor Integration.” Zotero. Accessed June 23. https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_integration.
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 University of Chicago Press. 2010. The Chicago Manual of Style. 16th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. University of Chicago Press. 2010. The Chicago Manual of Style. 16th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  
 Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. 1977. Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. 1977. Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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 Wagner, Roy. 1977. “Analogic Kinship: A Daribi Example.” American Ethnologist 4 (4): 623–42. Wagner, Roy. 1977. “Analogic Kinship: A Daribi Example.” American Ethnologist 4 (4): 623–42.
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