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Citation Tools: Mendeley, EndNote, and Zotero
Citation tools enable you to:
- build and store personalized collections of references
- organize and manage these citations within folders
- build bibliographies
- automatically format and insert citations in papers you're writing
Help & Training
- Sign up for an EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero training class
- Take a look at our EndNote guide, Mendeley guide, or our Zotero guide
- View our Guide to the Major Citation Styles: APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, IEEE
- Ask Us about workshops and assistance with EndNote, Mendeley, and Zotero
EndNote
- Is the industry standard for citation management tools
- Is used by millions of researchers to search online bibliographic databases, organize references and related files, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly
- Is free to University of Pittsburgh faculty and students, and can be downloaded at from Pitt IT Software Services
Mendeley
- Is a citation management tool that offers all the basic citation management tool features
- Enables social networking with other researchers
- Has a searchable crowd-sourced database approaching 100 million documents
- Is freely available at www.mendeley.com
Zotero
- Is open source and freely available at www.zotero.org
- Connects with your browser to save sources with one click
- Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux OS
