Citing Sources  Tags: citing apa_style chicago_style mla_style turabian_style aaa_style apsa_style asa_style acs_style ama_style cse_style citation_managers reference citation_styles  

Citation Managers such as RefWorks, EndNote, or Zotero are software tools for managing your citations.  Citation managers will help you:

• Create and organize a personal research database,
• Download citations from online databases,
• Format bibliographies and citations in papers, and
• Share your citations with others.

Compare Citation Managers

RefWorks - RefWorks is web-based software for managing your citations. It is free to all faculty, staff and students at UW-Madison.

EndNote - EndNote is desktop citation management software that you can purchase from the DoIT Tech Store. It may be more appropriate if you are writing for publication.

EndNoteWeb - EndNoteWeb is the Web web-based version of EndNote and is available for free to campus users. It is intended to complement EndNote desktop.

Zotero - Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.