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Citation Managers

This guide outlines a variety of citation management tools to help you track and organize resources and create citations and reference pages.

Overview

EndNote Desktop is a software program that:

  • Creates, stores and manages your references/citations
  • Saves your selected references/citations from online resources (library catalog, library databases, Google Scholar, internet) to export into your EndNote Desktop library
  • Inserts references/citations from your EndNote Desktop library into MS Word documents and automatically creates a bibliography in a variety of styles
  • Allows for creating groups

EndNote Basic is the free version of EndNote Desktop which allows up to 2GB of storage but has fewer features. It is for web only, not web and desktop and unlike EndNote Desktop, it does not allow PDF annotation or sharing.

Cost

  • Current Student License (one-time purchase for unlimited use): $149.95
  • Regular (first-time and one-time purchase for unlimited use, non-student): $274.95
  • An upgrade license for EndNote 20  is $124.95

 

  • EndNote Basic is free and provides up to 2GB storage.

Strengths

Allows greater customization of output styles and import filters

Stored data can be accessed without an internet connection

Import citations from RIS files or added from OneSearch through the library. Citations can also be added from any webpage with the free EndNote Click extension.

Save and annotate PDFs

Bulk downloading of PDFs

Share papers and folders with external users

Microsoft Word integration

De-duping

Reference styles can be edited directly within the software

Limitations

Expensive

Hard to switch between multiple computers

Limited web features

Earlier versions of EndNote do not allow for collaboration

Different versions have significant differences in them

Learning curve tends to be greater than other citation managers

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