"Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research." With Zotero you can quickly add resources for a research paper to your library and then add those resources into your paper and then instantly create a bibliography.
Note: I am providing this information as a useful tool for research--the library does not endorse this product.
If you have questions about Zotero, you can direct them to Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky. While I am not an expert, I can try to find an answer to your question if I can't answer it outright.
How to get started with Zotero:
For a quick turtorial, we'll use the examples below. Once you've downloaded Zotero, find the following resources and add them to your library:
Next we're going to insert these resources as citations into a sample paper. Copy and paste this sample text into the a blank document to practice inserting citations in-text:
There is no question that the 21st century has seen its share of natural disasters, especially when one considers that we have not been in this new millennium for even a decade. Perhaps, at least for Americans, the most recognizable instance of a recent natural disaster occurred in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina is considered to be one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters in American history. It may have been responsible for taking the lives of as many as 1,836 people and causing upwards of $81.2 billion worth of damage (CITATION 1). Hurricane Katrina shall be referred to periodically throughout this research paper because it represents numerous types of social problems in addition to being a problem associated with the environment. For example, Hurricane Katrina illustrates problems related to inequality, racism, and sexism. African Americans, Latinos, women, and children tended to be disproportionately affected by this natural disaster and were the most likely to be among the dead in the aftermath of the storm (CITATION 2).
According to anthropologists, ethnocentrism is when an individual believes that her culture is superior to other cultures (CITATION 3). When discussing these and other social problems, social scientists strive to adopt a global perspective, rather than to engage in ethnocentric thinking. It is particularly important, then, not to focus solely on natural disasters that have occurred in the United States. In addition to Hurricane Katrina, there have been other natural disasters that have occurred throughout other parts of the world during the 21st century (CITATION 4). While there is no question that Hurricane Katrina may be one of the most frequently cited natural disasters, it pales in comparison with the destruction caused by the Asian tsunami of 2004. It is likely that this disaster claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people (CITATION 5). As in the case of Hurricane Katrina, most of the victims of the Asian tsunami were poor. These individuals had substandard homes that could not withstand any type of resistance force, and most did not have insurance policies or savings accounts to help them get on their feet in the aftermath of the disaster. It is safe to speculate that the poor are usually more vulnerable to natural disasters than other members of society.
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