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Last update: Oct 15th, 2009 URL: http://libguides.wofford.edu/citesources  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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About Citation Tools

Citation managers are tools designed to help you manage your footnotes/citations/references and create bibliographies. Programs like RefWorks, Procite, and Endnote will do this for you--at a price. These free tools will do the same job for a lot less money.

 
 

Web sites

Similar to popular social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/) but designed for scholars. These sites allow you to easily bookmark webpages or sources you find and save them to a website you can visit from any computer. What makes it social is that you can see what other people have saved, add comments, and use other people's lists to help you find new websites or other sources on your topic.

  • Connotea  
      
    Designed primarily for scientists, who mostly work with articles. Automatically recognizes articles and fills in citaiton details, but you will need to fill in additional information on books you find. Can export your bookmarks in a form Jabref, BibDesk and other programs can use to create a bibliography.

    Note: Connotea is not yet compatible with our new catalog. Please use the classic catalog to upload citations into Connotea.
  • CiteULike  
      
    Good for all types of scholarly literature, though also article-focused. A bit clunkier than Connotea and Delicious, but still quite good. Can export your bookmarks in a form Jabref, BibDesk and other programs can use to create a bibliography.
 

Programs

These resources must be downloaded and installed on the computer where you will be using them.

  • Zotero*  
      
    A reference manager and database of citation information. Automatically recognizes articles and books from library databases, the catalog, and websites like Amazon and creates citation information for them. Allows you to save a copy of an article or webpage. Creates bibliographies and citations in APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, and many other styles.

    *Zotero is not yet compatible with our new catalog. Please use the classic catalog to upload citations into Zotero.
  • Jabref  
      
    A reference manager you can install and run on any system. Allows you to input the citation details for articles, books, and other sources, and store them on your computer. Can be linked to Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org word procesors to allow you to easily cite sources and create bibliographies in all major styles. Bibtex files exported from Connotea, CiteULike, or Google Scholar (or many other web sources) can be directly imported in bulk.
  • Bibdesk (Mac only)  
      
    Very similar to Jabref, but with a prettier Mac interface.
 

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