Zotero Firefox add-on helps researchers manage citations easily

Zotero looks like a very useful Firefox add-on for researchers. It has been covered on Download Squad back in 2006. Over three years later, it is still going strong and now has word processor integration. The add-on lets you add citations from anywhere in the web; you find a page which is useful for your research, hit a button on the Firefox address bar, and Zotero locates one or more citations on that page and saves it to its internal database. You can then add notes, group and sort your references, and edit any related information. Zotero's database is kept online, so your references stay in sync even if you use a number of different computers for your research.

When you drag a citation from Zotero to any text field, it puts a reference to that citation in one of numerous reference styles which can be configured. There are also Microsoft Word and OpenOffice plug-ins, which let you access your citation database from within those word processors so you can easily cite articles and then generate a bibliography by clicking a single button.

[Thanks, Yaara!]

Tags: bibliography, citations, firefox, reseach