Referencing with EU Style Using Zotero
Referencing a conference paper
Referencing a journal article
A conference paper published in proceedings
In-text citation
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit (Abuzov, 2023).
Reference in the bibliography
Abuzov, A. (2023), ‘Development of the Financial Capital Market in the Digital Economy’, in: Mantulenko V. (ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Engineering Innovations and Sustainable Development, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, No 378, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 280–285, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38122-5_39.
Bibliographic metadata in Zotero
A conference paper not published in proceedings
In-text citation
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit (Machado, 2025).
Reference in the bibliography
Machado, L. (2025), ‘Do AI research assistants live up to their hype? – An exploratory study of some freely available tools’, presented at the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL 2025), 22–25 September, Bamberg, Germany, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396120553_Do_AI_research_assistants_live_up_to_their_hype_An_Exploratory_Study_of_Some_Freely_Available_Tools.
Bibliographic metadata in Zotero
Conference papers
Zotero 'Item Type' – 'Conference Paper'.
Creator roles (in order of preference as main creator): ‘Author’, ‘Editor’, ‘Translator’, Series Editor’ and ‘Contributor’.
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Zotero fields |
Bibliographic element |
Status |
observations |
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Title |
Title |
Required |
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Author (or other) |
Creator |
Required if... |
... applicable |
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Date |
Date of publication |
Required |
only the year is required |
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Proceedings Title |
Container title |
Required if... |
... the paper was published |
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Place |
Place of publication or of event |
Optional |
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Conference Name |
Container title |
Required if... |
... the paper was not published |
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Publisher |
Publisher |
Optional |
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Volume |
Series volume |
Required if... |
... applicable |
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Pages |
Start and end page numbers |
Required if... |
... applicable |
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Series |
Series title |
Optional |
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DOI |
Digital identifier |
Required if... |
... applicable |
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Short title |
Title |
Optional |
this field will be used to identify the document in in-text citations if no creators are present |
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URL |
Digital locator |
Required if... |
... applicable and a DOI is not present |
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Call Number |
Internal number |
Optional |
it can be used to add an internal reference number |
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Extra |
[can assume several] |
Required if... |
.. applicable, to add the date of the event (of non-published papers) by using the tag event-date: |