What software is available at IU for managing bibliographic references?

At Indiana University, students, faculty, and staff have access to EndNote, EndNote Web, and Reference Manager for bibliographic citation management. See At IU, how can I get EndNote and Reference Manager?

Citation management software helps you manage bibliographic references for annotating reading lists, compiling bibliographies, preparing lists of items in which you have been cited, or tracking works of interest. You can also use EndNote or Reference Manager to automatically insert references while writing a paper.

Typically, you can input or import bibliographic information for sources, such as books and journal articles. Some electronic databases allow you to mark, download, or email records, and then transfer the records to the bibliographic management software.

The software will take the references and automatically format them in accordance with the style guidelines you choose (e.g., MLA, APA). Each program has its own range of available styles for formatting references. You can incorporate the formatted references into your paper, and then sort and search your references, detect and remove duplicates, and perform other tasks.

EndNote

EndNote, produced by Thomson Reuters, allows you to collect references from databases, manage the references, and attach full texts of the bibliographic items. You may also format your references in a variety of styles to create bibliographies or to insert references in a paper or dissertation (Cite While You Write). EndNote is available for Windows and Mac OS X from IUware. For more, see the EndNote web site or the IUB Libraries EndNote page.

EndNote Web

All IU campuses except IU Southeast have a subscription to EndNote Web. Students, faculty, and staff can create free EndNote Web accounts at:

At IU Bloomington, to create your account while off campus (without VPN), use the IUB Libraries' proxied URL.

EndNote Web lets you create EndNote libraries on the web. It includes many, but not all, of the features of EndNote. Because these libraries are web-based, you can access them anywhere. With EndNote Web, you can:

• Share libraries with colleagues
• Upload records from your desktop EndNote libraries into EndNote Web libraries
• Download records directly from Endnote Web into desktop EndNote
• Save records from EndNote Web for import into desktop EndNote libraries
• Prepare papers with the Cite While You Write function

  Note: For the latest functionality and communication between the desktop and the web versions of EndNote, upgrade to EndNote X5, and then from the desktop EndNote X5, run the EndNote web updater.

Reference Manager

Like EndNote, Reference Manager, also from Thomson Reuters, offers tools that allow you to search online sources, create bibliographies, manage references, and cite while you write. It is available only for Windows.

More information

For help using EndNote and information about Reference Manager, ProCite, and Zotero, see Bibliographic Software.

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