1. Have Citation … Will Travel
Margaret Driscoll, MLIS-candidate
SJSU – SLIS
February 20, 2012
Sponsored by the Student Chapter of ASIS&T

2. Research As Process
Gather info – Read widely – Come to know general topic
Identify
Topic
Search
Synthesize!
Evaluate
Select
Present

3. INFO-GLUT out of control

7. Download Presentation Slides
• ‘File’ pull-down menu (upper left)
• ‘Save’
• ‘Whiteboard’
• ‘All pages’ OK
• Select file type  Whiteboard PDF
• Name and save to your computer

9. Add in Abstract-view

13. Websites …

14. Added!

15. Open Access Articles …

16. Added (but touch-up needed)
Check other
parts of
citation

17. Many  …

18. Selected

19. Have Citations, Will Travel
• Using different computers?
• Portable Firefox on a USB drive
• Zotero over a network
• Folder synchronization service

20. Cites ‘n Docs

21. Icon-omize
Insert Citation
Edit Citations
Insert Bibliography
Edit Bibliography
Refresh
Document preferences

22. American
Medical
Association Modern
Chicago
Humanities
Manual of
Research
Style
Association
Vancouver IEEE
Zotero Style
Repository
American
American
Sociological Default Styles Political
Science
Association
Association
Modern
National
Language
Library of
Association
Medicine
(MLA)
American
Nature Psychological
Journal Association
(APA)

23. In-text Citations … within Word
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3
2
4

24. Check text size
Check citation

25. Bibliography … within Firefox
Select folder
Right click
Scroll down to “Create bibliography…”

27. Ta DA!
Just Copy/Paste!
Cool, huh?
But touch-up is needed!
Check capitalization with style guide
Check citation pieces – all there?
Double-space as needed

28. Questions?