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To do so they extract the the citation data you will need when writing your manuscript.

If you have saved a large collection of PDF files on your computer which you wish to add to your reference manager, Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote are all able to add them in bulk.

EndNote Web/Online also permits this, but with fewer features than the desktop version.

If you want easy online access to your references, consider.

If you want to mainly work off-line on your own computer, EndNote is your best bet.

If you want software that's easy to learn, Zotero, and Mendeley are pretty easy to learn and use.

If you want open source software, choose Zotero.

If you don’t want to pay for software, consider Zotero.

These points refer to EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley: We try to monitor developments in reference managers and will provide information about significant updates in this library guide. Zotero, Mendeley, Sciwheel, and PaperPile work with GoogleDocs. You pay a monthly fee for PaperPile and it only works with Google Docs.

Mendeley is free for basic use, and costs money if you try to share your article library between a group of more than 3 people. Papers is now a subscription service costing $36/yr for students and $60/yr for academics. UCSF Library subscribes to Sciwheel, and is free to you while at UCSF. Zotero is free to all unless you need to buy extra cloud storage space. The best price is $114 for students and $219 for faculty and staff. Relevant alternatives include Sciwheel, Mendeley, PaperPile, Papers (now merged with ReadCube), Citavi, RefWorks, and more.Īs I write this in January, 2021, UCSF does not provide EndNote, you will need to purchase it. We will focus on EndNote, Zotero and Sciwheel. We will support and teach Zotero and EndNote in the future (written January 2021). There are other available reference managers. Use the stored information to add in-text citations and a reference list to a document you are writing, or to create a bibliography. Organize this information in a useful way and make it searchable.ģ. Store information about books, articles, websites, etc. All reference managers do the same three things:ġ.