A personal assistant for researchers
Zotero Android is an excellent open-source app that helps us organize academic references and research bibliographies. It is the mobile version of the famous program for PC. Thanks to its cloud-based auto-sync function, we will be able to access our libraries, add new sources and manage citations from anywhere and from any device.
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
How to manage and arrange academic references on your mobile device
The Zotero APK app for Android is an awesome add-on to the desktop version, allowing us to manage references with ease and on the go. With a few taps, researchers and students can collect information from academic articles, books and papers and integrate the data in the platform's collections and libraries.
Main features of Zotero
- Reference management in order to organize citations, articles and papers.
- Cloud syncing, allowing access to the library from any device.
- Supports more than 10,000 citation and bibliography formats, such as APA, MLA or Chicago.
- Customized collections and tags for classifying documents.
- Possibility to share libraries with research groups.
- Function for saving magazine and newspaper articles, books, webpages and more (to be integrated soon).
- PDF file reader with tools for highlighting excerpts and writing notes.
- A tool for annotating documents in Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice and automatically generating bibliographies from the sources used.
If you are researching a subject and are looking for an easy-to-use tool for organizing your notes and references, all you need to do is download Zotero for free. This personal assistant is sure to change the way you structure information.
Requirements and additional information:
- Minimum operating system requirements: Android 6.0
- Instructions to install XAPKs on Android

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