Introduction to Citation Management Tools

Having difficulty managing and citing your sources? Citation management software is available to help you:

• Keep track of the sources you're using for your research
• Organize the sources you've found with folders or tags
• Share those sources with collaborators
• Automatically create a draft bibliography and/or in-text citations/footnotes in a citation style of your choice.

So if your web browser has way too many tabs  open for days while you're working on your assignment...

Or you have folders of journal article PDFs you've saved that are all confusingly named, and you can't remember which file is which...

Or you need to cite more than 10 articles for your assignment...

Citation management software can help!

We recommend using either Mendeley or Zotero. Get a sneak preview of these programs on the next page.