#citation manager

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Friendly reminder to all high school students, college students, people working with and citing things: Use Zotero!

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What: RefWorks

How: RefWorks is a web-based citation manager. It is a system that allows you to create, search, and maintain your own personal citations database. These citations can then be easily inserted in research papers and can be automatically added to bibliographies.

RefWorks is a free service for all Fayetteville State University students, faculty, and staff. It is accessible both on and off campus. To use the citation manager, you will need to create a new account.

Refworks allows you to do the following:

Create your own personal database

Import references from the Chesnutt Library databases

Automatically format your papers and bibliographies in seconds

Manage all types of research information

Collaborate with your peers and colleagues

Who: This LibGuide is maintained by LaTasha R. Jones, University Library Technician (Reference and Interlibrary Loan).

ReWorks is a wonderful citation tool, but often students have questions about how to log in, export citations databases and other information. Please feel free to contact LaTasha Jones at [email protected] or at [phone] for further assistance.

#ChesnuttLibrary Resource of the Week: @RefWorks (1.28.2016) #BroncoPride #FayState #LibChat What: RefWorks How: RefWorks is a web-based citation manager. It is a system that allows you to create, search, and maintain your own personal citations database.

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Zotero, is a God send

Idk if this will help people but there’s a free citation manager called Zotero

https://www.zotero.org/user/login/

Basically, you put in all the info you have on a document and it’ll generate whatever type of citation you need. There’s even a Chrome extension for it so that as you do research you can click on an icon at the top of you screen and it will automatically save the info from the article that you are looking at as well as a link back to the original source. OR! you can link PDFs and Word docs to a specific article so you can click on it in Zotero and it will open up. The best part is if that you want you can back up all of your citations to your zotero account. Did I mention it’s free? Yes it’s completely free and yu can download new citation styles as you need them.

Oh Oh there’s more, you can link Zotero into Word so you can even use it to do in text citations for you as you write your paper!! It works great and I love it!

K Bye

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Read Cube

I’m trying out a new citation manager called Read Cube that was recommended by my advisor.

I’ve tried Mendeley, Zotero, and Endnote (among countless others) and still haven’t found any that are quite to my liking. I am using Scrivener to write my dissertation, and since Scrivener still isn’t compatible with any citation managers (I’ve tweeted multiple times), I have been trying to find something that at least eases my workflow process. 

PROs • You can search for the papers using PubMed, Google Scholar, or Microsoft Academic:

• Allows for these auto list creation, PDF downloading, and enhanced PDFs from web publications:

• It automatically pulls in the citation, which all of the other programs do as well, but I find this one a little more intuitive. 

• If you have something in your files that ReadCube doesn’t automatically register, I love how you can simply highlight the title/author etc and it gives you an auto option to input the highlighted text to its designated spot. Here I’ve highlighted the title and put my mouse over “title”:

and it automatically inputs the text for me

Then I click Find Match and the citation is magically imported

• There is a recommendations tab, which gives recommendations for literature you might find useful based on the literature you have in your folder. I like this feature, but honestly my articles span the gamut from mHealth, anthropology, nutrition science, maternal and child health, etc. So while it’s useful for this particular project I’m writing right now, I’m not sure it will stand up to the test of time.

OVERALL pro -- 

• Easy to import, find PDFs. 

CONs • I cite a lot of conference papers, and I still have to put these in manually. This seems to be a glitch in the system somehow.

• When you “manually” search for an article, it only allows searching via Google Scholar or PubMed, which doesn’t quite work for me, so I end up having to manually input them anyway.

• When I click on a paper, it takes me to that paper and it’s not easy to get back to the folder where it was, which is an annoying quirk.  For example, I want to look in the physical activity folder

and I want to look at this article:

So I click on read, which pulls it up

But then there is no way for me to “go back” to the folder. So if i’ve forgotten where I got this paper from, and I want to scroll through others, I have to manually go back into my folders, figure out which folder it was in, and then where in the folder it was. Not a *big* deal, but a time waster nonetheless.

• I can’t collapse my folders, which makes it super annoying to scroll through when I’m trying to find a reference.

• And finally, there are some random papers at the end and the program won’t allow me to drag and drop them into a folder, and I can’t figure out how to move them. So my only option is to delete the document and re-enter it at this point, which is a huge time-suck.

OVERALL con -- 

• Steep learning curve, may not be worth it in the end.

Overall Impression

Probably will go back to Mendeley or something else. Any suggestions?

UPDATE - 7/21/15

I forgot to add that read cube also allows you to cope and paste the citation so you can do it by hand. The way I do it is first soft click on the paper:

Then click on the note pad looking icon

Now type in the citation style you are using; in this case, I am going to use APA

Then I highlight the citation, right click to copy. 

Then in Scrivener, I add the citation as a footnote to make it easier when I upload it into Word or InDesign.

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