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The D. H. Hill Jr. Library will be closed this summer for electrical infrastructure repairs, starting May 5, 2025. About the Hill Library closure →
Updated Apr 9 11:07am
Citation management tools can help organize and cite your research, and a variety of options are available. Some of these options are listed below, with some pros and cons to each.
Zotero | Mendeley | EndNote | |
Cost | Desktop: Free Cloud storage: 300MB free, cost for further storage | Desktop: Free Cloud storage: 2GB free, cost for more under Account | Desktop: Yes https://endnote.com/buy Web Classic: Free |
PDF annotation & highlighting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Ability to search full text of PDFs and annotations | Yes | No - Title, author, & year only | Yes |
Compatibility with word processing programs | MS Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice | MS Word, LibreOffice | MS Word, Google Docs |
Importing citations from other databases | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Group folders for collaborative work | Yes | Yes | Limited to specific versions |
Ability to write and cite synchronously from shared libraries | Yes | No | Version 21 & later only |
Browser plugin to extract citations from pages | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mobile capabilities | Yes, mobile app | Yes, browser only | Yes, browser only |
Compatible with LaTeX | Yes; exports all major formats | Yes: exports .Bibtex, RIS, and .XML | Yes; exports all major formats |
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