{"id":2210,"date":"2018-05-14T18:14:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T22:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2018-05-14T18:14:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T22:14:37","slug":"introducing-zoterobib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/introducing-zoterobib\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing ZoteroBib: Perfect bibliographies in minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We think Zotero is the best tool for almost anyone doing serious research, but we know that a lot of people \u2014\u00a0including many students \u2014\u00a0don\u2019t need all of Zotero\u2019s power just to create the occasional bibliography.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we\u2019re introducing <a href=\"https:\/\/zbib.org\">ZoteroBib<\/a>, a free service to help people quickly create perfect bibliographies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/static\/images\/blog\/zbib\/zoterobib@2x.gif\" width=\"583\" height=\"437\" alt=\"An animation of viewing a New York Times article, copying the URL to ZoteroBib to add a bibliography item, and copying the bibliography to Google Docs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Powered by the same technology behind Zotero, ZoteroBib lets you seamlessly add items from across the web \u2014 using Zotero\u2019s unmatched metadata extraction abilities \u2014\u00a0and generate bibliographies in more than 9,000 citation styles. There&#8217;s no software to install or account to create, and it works on any device, including tablets and phones. Your bibliography is stored right on your device \u2014\u00a0in your browser&#8217;s local storage \u2014 unless you create a version to share or load elsewhere, so your data remains entirely under your control.<\/p>\n<p>ZoteroBib is completely free: we don&#8217;t bombard you with ads or charge you (or your school) money for full functionality or more advanced citation styles. And since it&#8217;s built by the team behind Zotero, and backed by the same open-source community, you can count on the same expertise and attention to detail that people rely on when they write dissertations and scholarly papers using Zotero.<\/p>\n<p>To add an item to your bibliography, simply find it online in another tab and paste the URL into the ZoteroBib search box. You can also paste or type in an ISBN, DOI, PubMed ID, or arXiv ID, or you can search by title. ZoteroBib will fetch bibliographic info for the item and add it to your bibliography. ZoteroBib can import high-quality data from journal articles, books, newspaper and magazine articles, blog posts, webpages, and more. If it doesn&#8217;t find what you&#8217;re looking for or the data is incomplete, the manual editor allows you to enter data by hand.<\/p>\n<p>As you write, you can quickly copy citations with page numbers to the clipboard for pasting into your document:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/static\/images\/blog\/zbib\/copy-citation@2x.png\" width=\"403\" height=\"262\" alt=\"Copy Citation dialog with a page number entered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re done, a single click copies a formatted bibliography to the clipboard for pasting into your word processor, or you can generate a bibliography in HTML to add to a webpage. And of course, if you find you need a bit more power, you can easily save your data to Zotero or export it for loading into any other reference manager.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zbib.org\">Go to ZoteroBib<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Not sure whether ZoteroBib or Zotero is right for you? See the <a href=\"https:\/\/zbib.org\/faq#should-i-use-zoterobib-or-zotero\">ZoteroBib FAQ<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>(Finally, if you\u2019re a happy Zotero user, stay tuned: we\u2019ll be bringing some features from ZoteroBib back to the Zotero web interface soon!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think Zotero is the best tool for almost anyone doing serious research, but we know that a lot of people \u2014\u00a0including many students \u2014\u00a0don\u2019t need all of Zotero\u2019s power just to create the occasional bibliography. Today, we\u2019re introducing ZoteroBib, a free service to help people quickly create perfect bibliographies. 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