Bibliographic management software programs such as: Endnote, Refworks, or Zotero allow you to download, import, organize & format your citations into your own bibliographic database. These programs enable you to collect & manage references, PDFs, data, and documents. Some may work with word processing to automatically format citations in papers and create instant bibliographies in a variety of styles.

Major citation and document managers are highlighted below.

EndNote (Mac, PC) is proprietary bibliographic management software that you install on your computer. It offers sophisticated, flexible tools for organizing references & creating bibliographies. EndNote works with word processing software to format citations, and create bibliographies in a comprehensive array of styles. It can be purchased from The Scholar's Workstation or online.

RefWorks (Online) is a web-based bibliographic management service licensed by the library for use by current UCB faculty, staff and students. RefWorks can be used independently or as a complement to EndNote. It can be used to organize references, format citations, and create bibliographies. To use RefWorks, create an account using the RefWorks New User form.

Zotero (Firefox) is a free Firefox extension that helps manage citations found online through your browser. You can automatically capture citation information from some web pages and databases, and you can store citations, PDFs, images, and more for easy retrieval. Zotero can create bibliographies in Word and OpenOffice in a limited number of styles.

TeX: is a typesetting language used for technical and scientific document preparation. LaTeX is a program that converts a plain text file into TeX. BibTeX is a tool that can be used with LaTeX to create documents and bibliographies. http://www.latex-project.org. Tools are free to download. The TeX Users Group (TUG) includes an FAQ, links to software. Endnote has a BibTeX output style that will format your citations into TeX.

Papers (Mac) is low-cost software that allows you to search, retrieve, organize, and annotate article PDFs. You can also easily export references into citation management tools like EndNote so that you can use their citation and bibliography formatting features.

Software for Science Reference Management: is a web-list of many bibliographic management programs for the PC and Mac, some are free.

Use the following charts for other programs and more information:
Citation manager comparison chart
Document manager comparison chart

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