

Right click on any PDF attachment on an existing Zotero item and select Rename File from Parent Metadata to clean up the filename. If Zotero can't find a match on Google Scholar, don't worry-you can still save the citation from another catalog or article database, then drag the PDF onto the citation to make it an attachment, or select Create Parent Item from the right-click menu and input the metadata manually. Right-click on a selection of one or more PDFs and choose Retrieve Metadata for PDFs. Zotero will retrieve their citation data from Google Scholar and turn them into citable items with PDF attachments.


There are also icons for magazine articles, newspaper articles, blog posts, videos, and conference papers, among others. Among the most common are the folder icon, which will display when Zotero recognizes multiple resources on the page (for example, on a list of search results in a database) the book icon, which will display when viewing a book and the article icon, which will display when viewing most journal articles. There are many type-specific icons you might see. You can use the Zotero Connector with Google Chrome, but you may need to turn on an additional setting if you use Chrome while signed in with your Brandeis. The icon displayed should match the source type. When it identifies a source on the page, the Zotero Connector will display a type-specific icon near the address bar in the browser. There are versions of the Zotero Connector for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera browsers, all available for download at /download. The Zotero Connector for your browser makes it easy to capture source information directly from a source's webpage.
