What is a Citation Manager?
Citation managers, or bibliographic management software, can save you hours by keeping track of your sources and formatting your bibliographies.
EndNote and EndNote Web are available at no cost to GSU students, faculty and staff. Zotero is available as a free Firefox plugin for anyone to download.
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Feature Comparison
| EndNote | EndNote Web | Zotero | RefWorks | Procite | |
| Cost | Free to GSU users | Free to GSU users | Free | $100/year | $170-329 |
| Web based | No | Yes | No |
Yes | No |
| Save references directly from GIL | No; requires searching via connection file | No; requires searching via connection file | Yes | No | ? |
| Import references from online databases | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Store references online and share with others | No | Yes | Yes, in version 2.0 |
Yes | No |
| MS Word integration | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create custom bibliographic styles | Yes | No | No, but can import EndNote styles |
Yes | Yes |
| Use Find it @GSU full-text links | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Requires online connection | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Other | Available for Windows and MacOS | Requires Firefox browser |
EndNote
EndNote is a database program for managing bibliographic citations. It can automate much of the work of organizing and formatting citations and bibliographies in your writing. EndNote can connect to online sources such as GIL and article databases, output results in over 1,000 different bibliographic styles, and more.
EndNote is available free of charge to GSU students, faculty and staff. Download the software here.
Zotero
Zotero
Zotero (pronounced "zoh-TAIR-oh") is a Firefox addon that collects, manages, and cites research sources. It's easy to use, lives in your web browser where you do your work, and best of all it's free. Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies using Word or OpenOffice. It is easier to use than EndNote and surprisingly powerful.
Since it's a Firefox plugin, it automatically updates itself periodically to work with new online sources and new bibliographic styles.
Zotero Quick Start Guide
See also this great guide published by the Zotero developers themselves. Also available as a PDF.
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Jason Puckett |
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