Citation Managers: Zotero & Mendeley

Invaluable tools for researchers

They:
 

• allow you to store and organize your citations all in one place.
  
   
• allow you to import your citations from a wide range of scholarly platforms including all the major databases and web sources including journal sites and Google Scholar.
  
   
• allow you to attach the full-text PDF to the relevant citation - both for free/Open Access documents and articles that the College Library subscribes to.
  
   
• format your in-text citations and bibliography at the click of a button.
  
   
• allow multiple project members to add, edit and share citations.
  
   
• work with a range of research data analysis and screening/extracting software including NVivo, Rayyan, SRDR+ etc.

Saves time & makes team research easier

Most popular, free citation management tools available today are fairly easy to learn and make formatting your in-text citations and bibliographies a breeze.  Typical features include:

• the ability to format your in-text citations at the click of a button.
   
  • supports both narrative and parenthetical citations
     
  • supports multiple works for the same in-text citation
    
     
• the ability to create your bibliography in any one of hundreds of citation styles.
  
   
• the ability to re-format your citations and bibliography into a new citation style in seconds.
  
   
• The ability to create groups so that everyone on your research team can log in and add citations to a particular project.

Please note that the tools mentioned in this guide store data on US-based servers.  As a result, your personal information may be accessed by US authorities under the US Patriot Act.