Section outline

  • 🇫🇷 Version française disponible ici

    This self-paced course will guide you through installing Zotero, exploring its interface, collecting bibliographic references, and managing them. You will also learn how to generate a bibliography with Zotero.

    Learning objectives

    1. Install Zotero
    2. Understand its interface
    3. Collect references
    4. Manage references
    5. Manage notes, tags, search, sorting, and duplicates
    6. Import or export in BibTeX or RIS format
    7. Generate a list of bibliographic references
    This course is freely accessible!

    No account creation or registration is required. Enjoy the course!

    • Auteur(s) / Formateur(s): Gabriel Gallezot - Université Côte d'Azur
      Production cours: Philippe Jaricot - Université Côte d'Azur
      Production vidéos: Philippe Jaricot - Université Côte d'Azur
      Public cible: Enseignants Chercheurs, Doctorants, Professionnels de l’information
      Date de publication: 10 February 2026
      Durée estimée: 3 heures
      Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
      Open badge: No
      Catalogue: Yes
      Thématique: Méthodologie de la thèse, Outils / logiciels
      Durée: Format long (> 1h30)
      Type d'accès: Libre accès
      Partenaire: Urfist
      Langue: Anglais

    • Foreword

      This self-paced course requires approximately 3 hours of work (this average may vary depending on your computer skills and prior knowledge of Zotero or bibliographic reference management).

      The goal is not to achieve perfect mastery of the tool, but to become familiar with its interface and carry out tasks that will soon become second nature.

      As with any tool, only regular practice will lead to mastery of its various features.

      Additional Zotero training courses, including more advanced ones, are available on the Sygefor platform of the Urfist network. These courses are free for French higher education and research institutions (universities, EPST), but registration is required.

      Browse the Urfist Sygefor catalogue

      For doctoral students, you can access Zotero training courses through your ADUM account.

      Go to ADUM