Zotero for Mac: Capturing Website Citations

Each time you capture a website, check Zotero to see if you got an accurate and complete citation.

Since many websites have poor metadata (embedded information about the website), you'll frequently need to fix some things.

This is well worth your time and effort so Zotero can generate accurate in-text citations and a bibliography for you.

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Zotero for Mac: Capturing Website Citations

Zotero takes a snapshot, a picture you can look at offline.  It will have all the text, graphics, etc., that appeared on that one page of the website (not the entire website).  Since website content changes, a snapshot gives you an unchanging picture of the content on the day you captured it.