TS planning to use this tool as a "citation generator"?

So I was right.

Emperor, he already did the work, but failed to cite properly. He should have used zotero before starting, but you're not telling him to start all over and redo all the research right?

The difference between a plagiarized and properly cited reference is not that one is your own work while the other was copied from someone else. The difference is the presence or lack of a citation.

Depending on your field of study, your lecturer might not be happy if your paper is 100% your own original material, and contains no reference/citation to anyone else. You'd be asked why didn't you do any research. Especially true for science.