University of Pittsburgh Library System

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