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Tools For Managing References And Citations
These programs provide access to online bibliography
databases, and maintain their own databases of reference entries for
incorporation into your documents. They are not very robust with respect
to document preparation or manual entry of references.
Software |
Description |
| EndNotes (ISI ResearchSoft) |
The standard program for retrieving bibliographic
information from online databases for many years. You can access just about any database (some
require paid subscriptions), and EndNotes can format retrieved
bibliography entries into thousands of different formats,
including APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian.
The document preparation features are weak and
incomplete, but the bibliographic entry and retrieval features
are the best in the business. |
| Citation (Oberon Development) |
We call this "EndNotes Jr." It's
slightly limited compared to Endnotes and significantly less
polished, but it does a good job.
You can use Citation to access databases just
like you do with Endnote, and it adds a web-based bibliographic
database that you can easily access. |
EndNotes has been the bibliographic database program, and for good reason. It does everything
you expect it to do, and it does it well. It has very limited document
preparation features, but that's not its purpose. Citation is the new up
and comer, and is significantly less money. It does a good job, and they
are aggressively marketing it. If you're on a budget and willing to use
less refined bibliographic retrieval software, Citation is probably
worth checking out.
Please note that StyleEase is in the process of adding online bibliographic database capabilities to its products, and that other programs in this market are likely to do the same.
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