Molecular and Cell Biology: Save, organize & cite

Citation managers (also called reference managers or bibliographic management software) offer a way to save, organize and manage references. Many work with word processing software to format in-text citations and bibliographies for papers and theses, allow you to share references, and enable you to attach or link PDFs to a citation record.

Wikipedia comparison of reference management software

Selected citation managers (there are many more):

• Zotero guide [UC Berkeley Library]
• Zotero documentation [Zotero.org]
• Free Zotero workshops [UC Berkeley Library; offered in the Fall and Spring semesters]
• Free desktop program with browser connector; 300 MB storage (can be synced with Google Drive, Berkeley Box or Dropbox for greater storage--see Zotero guide for details)
• Sync Zotero to access your library from any computer with internet access
• Insert citations and automatically format reference lists in Google Docs/bDrive, MS Word and LibreOffice
• Capture citation data from PDFs and web pages
• Share and collaboratively edit folders of references

• Mendeley guide [UC Berkeley Library]
• Free software/web hybrid for PC, Mac, Linux; 100 GB web storage for UC Berkeley Institutional Group members
• Format bibliographies in MS Word or OpenOffice
• Sync PDFs to your web account for online access
• Capture citation data from some PDFs
• Read and annotate PDFs
• Share and collaboratively edit folders of references

• RefWorks guide [UC Berkeley Library]
• Free to UC Berkeley users; unlimited storage
• Web-based: use at any computer with internet access
• Insert citations and automatically format reference lists in Google Docs/bDrive and some versions of MS Word
• Import citations from RSS feeds
• Use UC-eLinks to find the full text of articles from within RefWorks
• Capture citation data from PDFs and web pages
• Read and annotate PDFs
• Share and collaboratively edit folders of references

• Papers guide
• Software/web hybrid for Mac and Windows available by subscription
• Format bibliographies in MS Word and Pages
• Automatically import PDFs together with citation
• Search, highlight and annotate PDFs

• EndNote guide [UC Berkeley Library]
• Discounted to UC Berkeley users [please contact me for details]
• Desktop-based software (plus EndNote Web)
• Format bibliographies in MS Word or OpenOffice
• Capture citation data from some PDFs
• Annotate PDFs
• Use UC-eLinks to find the full text of articles from within EndNote
• Share lists of references with other EndNote users