Reference Management Tools: EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks and Zotero

Abstract

Referencing provides information about resources used in research work by researcher. A reference manager supports researchers in performing three basic research steps: searching, storing and writing. Plagiarism is a term that describes the unacknowledged use of someone’s work. Plagiarism is a very serious academic offence. References given as per standard reference style manual avoid plagiarism. The online reference management tools helps the researchers to import and export citations, organize citations, and produce the citations in a variety of reference management style manuals or formats. This paper describes four popular online reference management tools viz. EndNote, Mendeley, Refworks and Zotero.
Keywords: Reference Management Tools, EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks, Zotero

Cite this Article

V. P. Yadav. Reference Management Tools: EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks and Zotero. Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences. 2019; 6(Special Issue 1): 315s–319s.