Citation Management

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All Citation Management products have these basic features to help you:

• Gather and transfer references from databases/resources/webpages into your personal research database
• Organize, annotate, sort and search your references, images and PDFs
• Insert in-text citations and reference lists into documents in a wide variety of styles (MLA, APA, etc)
• Create stand alone bibliographies in a wide variety of styles

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Before you choose, here are some questions to ask yourself...

• Does the tool support the citation styles that you will need?
• Does the tool support the kinds of sharing capabilities that you will need?
• Which databases or websites do you use most frequently? Is the tool compatible with those sites?
• Do you need to capture webpage snapshots? Do you want to store PDFs? What are the file formats that you will be collecting?
• Do you need to work off-line? Do you work from multiple places?
• Do you need a product for a lifetime collection of references?
• Do you need to consider a post-Yale life?
• Do you collaborate with other researchers at Yale and/or outside Yale? What product(s) do others on the team use?
  

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