What is a Citation?
What is a citation? A citation....
- describes a book, journal article, website, or other published item
- gives credit to the originator of an idea, thus preventing plagiarism
- enables the reader to retrieve the item you refer to
- includes the author, title, source (publisher and place of publication or URL), and date
A citation manager is a tool which helps you to store, organize and output your citations in the format you prefer.
Three Options for Citation Management
Here is a summary - see also the full comparison chart below.
Refworks
Easy-to-use web-based product available to all Princeton users (www.refworks.com). RefWorks
allows you to import references from Princeton's Main Catalog and many
electronic databases to which Princeton subscribes. You can
conveniently compile a list of sources you intend to read--as you
identify them--and save the list online.
Endnote
The leader among bibliographic managment applications. Endnote is a robust, locally installed (rather than web-based) application which can handle the book-length documents and complex scenarios but has a steep learning curve. Software and updates can be purchased at a discount from OIT's Princeton Software Repository.
Zotero
Easy-to-use open source tool (http://www.zotero.org/) that is accessible via the web—works right in your Firefox browser. Using Zotero, it is easy to capture and save citations found on webpages, and to add notes and other information to saved citations for efficient organization. Lacks the storage capabilities of Refworks and Endnote.
Comparison Chart
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