Reference management software
Reference management software helps you writing academic papers.
Basic features
- Recording bibliographic references, abstracts, full texts and personal notes
- Creating bibliographies automatically
- Publishing in common citation styles
Additional features
- Scheduling tasks
- Categorizing quotations and own thoughts
- Copying quotations and thoughts into word processing programmes
- Searching library catalogues and subject databases on the user interface of the reference management software
- Importing references, abstracts and full texts directly from a website
Licensed software
At Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences the reference management software Citavi and EndNote are licensed.
Students and other University members can use the programmes free of charge within the scope of the licence conditions.
An overview of reference management software can be found in the document 'Reference Management Software Comparison' by the University Library of the Technical University of Munich. The comparison includes open source software such as Zotero.