Managing Your References: Other tools
Other tools
There are many other online reference management tools available. Although ITS and the Library do not support these tools, you may still wish to consider them. Some have been made freely available, while others require a subscription.
Citation Generators
- Available for Windows and Mac
- Usually web based
- Use web forms to take input and format the output according to the citation style selected
- Some types can store citation data for later use
- May offer only a limited number of citation styles
- Cost:
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- Free
Sente
- Available for Mac
- Automatically sync your Mac library and your iPad
- Organise and tag references
- Create and save notes with your articles
- Cite papers and format references
- Bulk searches allow you to automatically retrieve hundreds of references and alert you daily to new references.
- Cost:
- Free 30 day trial available
- Subscription required for ongoing use
- Student discounts available
Papers
- Available for Windows and Mac
- Also available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod.
- Organise references and PDFs
- Create and save notes with your articles
- Cite papers and format references
- Search article repositories and download articles
- Cost:
- Free 30 day trial available
- Subscription required for ongoing use
- Student discounts available
LaTeX
- Available for Windows and Mac
- Typesetting program used to format scientific documents
- Gives control over large documents containing sectioning, cross-references, tables and figures
- Typically used with BibTeX to format lists of references
- Departments which require students to use LaTex may offer support - check with the departmental administrator
- Cost - Free
Qiqqa
- For Windows
- Syncing across multiple machines
- Organise and tag PDFs
- Annotate PDFs and create mindmaps of your thoughts
- Cite papers and format references (uses BibTeX)
- Google like full text searching of your library
- Cost:
- Basic package free