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Use the publisher’s record to add to Zotero. If unpublished, use the record where the work appears. When on the correct record, go to extension, and Zotero, and a pop up will appear that you can use to download the work and it’s metadata to Zotero.
Record Zot on the Word document.
If the info loaded into Zotero seems minimal, check that the title, authors and URL have been added to Zotero. If not, add them manually, or add the work using a regular spreadsheet that will be input manually.
Copy the citation using going to “edit” and then “copy bibliography”
Change On the info tab, change the format to journal articles.
Paste On the info tab, paste the citation into Journal Abbr
On the info tab, If the work is a fed gov doc, copy and paste this rights note into the ISSN: “This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.”
On the info tab, If the work is on a CC License, copy and paste the name of the CC license into the ISSN
On the info tab, If the URL is the DOI, change it to the URLAdd
On the notes tab, and any necessary notes --repeating the notation on the Word doc is no longer required unless you need the info when fulling in the spreadsheet (like link only)and Delete any extra notes that Zotero created when adding the record