Citation Management
These tools help you store and organize lots of references, and format bibliographies and papers in specific citation styles.
RefWorks
- Free to NC State users and alumni
- Use it anywhere via the web
- Good for managing records for articles and books
- Share citations
- Download optional add-ons:
- RCM (an MS Word plug-in) for automatically creating footnotes and reference lists
Zotero
- Free, open-source
- Firefox browser add-on or standalone
- Easy to learn
- Store PDFs
- Highlight text and take notes
- Tag records
- MS Word plug-in
Mendeley
- Free
- Must be installed on computer
- Easy to learn
- Manage PDFs / Extract citation info from PDFs
- See what others are reading and citing
EndNote
- Costs money
- Relatively complex to learn
- Sophisticated tools for organizing and citing references, creating bibliographies
- Highly customizable
- Handles large numbers of references
Quick Citation Formatting
For more information, visit Cite Sources.
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