References & Citation Management: Home

There are many different tools available to help researchers and students manage reference and generate citations. This guide provides a brief introduction to just some of the most commonly used and popular reference managers.

Citing your references is an important part of the research process.

However, managing citations can also become one of the more tedious and time-consuming parts of the research process. Citation management software can help you save time by allowing you to:

• Collect citations from your online databases, library catalogues and websites
• Organize, edit, and search through the citations you've saved
• Build and organize bibliographies in well-known styles like APA, MLA, and even style-specific journals like Nature
• Format citations for papers
• Take notes on articles and save them in your collection of citations
• Save and organize PDFs, screenshots, graphs, images, and other files for your research--even offline!