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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Citation Management

This guide contains an overview of free citation management software, and links to directions and tutorials.

Mendeley

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Mendeley is a software offered by Elsevier that saves citations and PDFs using a browser plugin, then allows you to organize those citations in folders and cite them using a word processor plugin. Mendeley will also search PDFs for citation information using DOIs and other identifiers.

Mendeley also offers more of a social experience, with the ability to join groups and see citations for those groups. You may also create private groups, with a maximum of three members, for group work.

The first 2GB of storage is free; after that pricing runs is 5GB for $55/year, 10GB for $110 /year, and unlimited for $165/year.

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