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If it’s not a federal government document or on cc license, skip it until you’ve been trained to do more.
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 If unpublished, use the record where the work appears.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.
On the Word document, record fed gov doc or cc lic as appropriate, and zot to indicate that you’ve added it to zotero.
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 going to “edit” and then “copy bibliography”
On the info tab, change the format to journal articles.
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 one of these rights note notes into the ISSN: “This
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.||Public Domain
This is 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.
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||Public Domain
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 URL
On the notes tab, and any necessary notes and Delete any extra notes that Zotero created when adding the record
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