For mobile devices or browsers that do not support the Zotero Connector extension a bookmarklet is available. Such functionality is made possible by 'translators' – short pieces of computer code, or scripts to understand the structure of web pages and to parse them into citations using its internal formats. Clicking this icon saves reference information to the Zotero library. When the Zotero Connector extension is installed in a compatible web browser, a special icon appears in the browser toolbar when a catalog entry or a resource (book, article, thesis) is being viewed on many websites (such as library catalogs or databases like PubMed, Google Scholar, Google Books,, Wikipedia, and publishers' websites).

The name 'Zotero' is loosely derived from the Albanian verb zotëroj, meaning 'to master'. It was originally created at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and, as of 2021, is developed by the non-profit Corporation for Digital Scholarship. Features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies, an integrated PDF reader and note editor, as well as integration with the word processors Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, and Google Docs. Zotero ( / z oʊ ˈ t ɛr oʊ/) is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF files.

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