Sometimes your professor will want you to create sections in your bibliography (for primary vs secondary sources, for example).
In general, the best way to do this is:
- Finish your paper and add your basic bibliography
- Save a copy of your paper
- Click "Unlink Citations" in the Zotero toolbar of your word processor
- Rearrange and label the items in your bibliography manually.
If you have a very large bibliography, it may be worth using a custom citation style (like the one linked below). This requires:
- Installing a custom style into Zotero (here's how, according to Zotero's documentation)
- In your document use the Zotero toolbar to set Document Preferences and indicate that you want to use the custom style for this document
- In Zotero, go through each item and add a word or a number to the "Extra" field. The custom style will group items with the same word/number together and then display the groups alphabetically/numerically in your bibliography.
- Finish your paper and add your basic bibliography.
- Save a copy of your paper.
- Click "Unlink Citations" in the Zotero toolbar of your word processor
- Add section headings to each grouping of citations