Zotero will then copy a formatted bibliography for the selected items in the selected citation style to your clipboard and you can paste it anywhere you want, e.g.
In most cases you will use “Bibliography” as the Output Mode and “Copy to Clipboard” as the Output Method-more on that momentarily. You can also right-click on any collection and select “Create Bibliography from Collection”. You can select multiple items using ctrl+click (Windows & Linux) / cmd+click (Mac) to add individual items to a selection or shift+click to select a range of items. To create a bibliography for one or multiple Zotero items, simply select them in the center pane of Zotero, right-click, and select “Create Bibliography from Items”. The Quick Way: Citations directly from Zotero Zotero also provides you with options to view your items as reports or analyze them using a timeline or text-mining tools. Your option range from creating a bibliography on the fly, simply using drag & drop to sophisticated citations including ibid, supra notes, disambiguation etc. Zotero allows you to create citations and bibliographies from items in your library. The Quick Way: Citations directly from Zotero.A user guide for the Zotero reference manager
