The same is true for things that appear in If you want to cite a book that is listed You will be amazed at how many sources are documented so And the degree to which you will get proper citation details depends on how well the “metadata” of the source has been input online. ![]() Zotero can’t psychically cite that for you, of course. You have a photograph of your grandmother that exists nowhere else in the world. It captures information with one click–for all practical purposes an instant citation. ![]() But this scholar’s claim made me look again, skeptically. He said Zotero-a free product-would capture your citation information in one click.Ĭould it be so? I had looked past Zotero as a potential research-keeping software several times, because I didn’t trust anything free, and it looked rather plain. I saw a post online where a fellow history scholar suggested the seemingly impossible. ![]() ![]() The prospect of thousands of sources to cite in my dissertation loomed large and scary. It started for me in graduate school, where Zotero’s magic bullet cured my night-terrors. But, one feature, virtually instant citations, makes it a “magic bullet”-a must-have for your genealogy toolkit. I am frequently lauding the wonders of Zotero, as applied now to genealogy. Genealogy friends, if I told you a free product could capture source citation information instantly for most sources in online catalogs with one click of your mouse, would you believe me? Instant citations? It is bonafide, proven, and you can prove it to yourself this very day.
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