NUTR 230C: Interpreting Nutrition Evidence

Why Use Citation Management Programs?

Citation management programs are time-saving tools that allow you to:

• Create libraries of citations that have been directly exported from databases or entered by hand
• Organize citations into folders and subfolders
• Upload and store PDF documents with their citations
• Insert citations into word processing documents and format bibliographies in a variety of styles

Citation Management Programs

Three popular citation management programs used at Tufts include:

• EndNote
• Mendeley
• Zotero

In addition to the information included in this guide, you may also want to check out the following guides created by the Tisch Library:

• Comparing Citation Tools
• Other Citation Tools

What is it?

Zotero is a freely available tool that works with your Web browser  to help you collect and organize references. Zotero also has a plug-in that will enable you to input your references from Zotero into a Word document to create in-text citations and bibliographies in a citation style you select.

To install Zotero, you need to download:

1.  the add-in for Firefox or the standalone version for other Web browser
2.  the Word plug-in  in order to create in-text citations and bibliographies in a Word document

Getting Started:

We have created a tutorial video to help you get started using Zotero.

For more information:

• Zotero Support Guide
• Tisch Library's Introduction to Zotero guide.

What is it?

• Paid citation management software installed on your personal computer.
• Discounts for faculty, staff and students found here (scroll down to Thomas Reuters).
• Automatically import citations from databases
• Organize citations into folders
• Share folders of citations via EndNote Web
• Download PDFs and attach them to citation records 
• Create citations automatically from PDFs 
• Insert tables/figures into Microsoft Word documents along with captions.

Getting Started:

• EndNote: The Basics - A guide from HHSL
• Yale University Guide to EndNote - videos and PDFs
• EndNote Tutorial Library - Video tutorials produced by Thomson Reuters

For more information:

• Tisch Library Guide to EndNote - A guide from the Medford Campus