To create a citation from a pdf follow these steps:
- open your file explorer to the folder containing your pdf.
- Drag and drop the PDF into an empty space in the middle column of Zotero.
- Right click the pdf in Zotero:
- If the pdf is from an academic source, you can choose "Retrieve Metadata For PDF" to automatically pull the reference from Google Scholar.
- If "Retrieve Metadata for PDF" doesn't work, or the pdf is from a primary source, scan, or other non-academic source, you can choose "Create Parent Item" instead. Then choose either "Manual Entry" to add the metadata yourself in Zotero's right column, or input a DOI/ISBN if you have one to enter the metadata automatically.
