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Icons, Explained

This may help you understand the functionality of commonly used icons.

  These four appear at the top left area of the Zotero screen

  manually create a citation

   when you want to add a ciration using a numerical identifier such as a DOI or a PMID

  add a previously saved file - either an individual PDF or a file saved from a database

 add a note to a citation

This allows you to search for a keyword within a collection.

These icons appear at the very right of the screen and are used only for individual articles.