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Academic Resource Center (ARC) Research & Writing Resources

Citation Managers

Keeping track of all of your articles for a research project (and creating references in your paper) can be overwhelming but there are research management tools that can help.

 

Citation management tools: Zotero

Zotero:

  • Provide a central electronic folder to hold the research you have collected
  • Works with all of the library databases and external sources (Google Scholar and individual web sites)
  • Manage your research by creating folders
  • Take notes on PDFs (highlighting)
  • Insert citations into your paper
  • Create a reference list (bibliography)
    • Remember to always check the output of these tools to make sure the reference style is correct and each reference is complete

 

Zotero- Getting Started

Z-Bib

ZBib

If you are writing a short research paper and you won't need the references later (like for a doctoral project), you may not need Mendeley or Zotero to store your references temporarily and format your reference page.   Try using ""Zotero lite" (Zbib.org) an app which will format all of your references automatically.

Watch this demonstration video.