What are citation managers?
Answer
Citation managers - also called reference managers or bibliographic management software - are programs that store and format scholarly references and citations. They are useful for keeping track of important articles or other works, for formatting citations correctly using a wide variety of citation styles including APA and AMA, and sometimes for sharing research between a group of users.
Most will allow you to :
- Store your selected citations and even articles
- Create correctly formatted lists of citations in a variety of styles
- Double-check to be sure of formatting
- Take notes on or about saved articles
- Share your selected citations and articles with others
To find more information, including a comparison between each citation management software, view the library's libguide: https://guides.atsu.edu/citations
Please note - you do not need to learn how to use all of them! Just pick one (either Endnote, Mendeley, or Zotero) and get familiar with just that program.