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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Citation Management

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

Zotero

Zotero is an open source citation management software that saves citation using a browser plugin. Zotero has the ability to detect citations in many different formats, and will automatically download the associated PDF. If there is no PDF, Zotero will save a copy of the webpage that can be accessed while offline.

Zotero allows organization using both folder and tags, and has options for shared folders for collaboration.

Zotero operates on a freemium scale, with the first 300MB free. Citation information and un-synced files do not count against your storage space.

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