Bibliographic Citation Software - for managing and discovering new resources

There are several applications that are used to manage and organise citations. See Comparison of Bibliographic Software.

The two, which are mentioned here, also have social networking aspects allowing users to share and collaborate as well as discover new resources, research and trends. You can download citations from websites and databases.

Cite U Like - References are stored online.

Mendeley   Desktop download and/or online account. Works with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux



 Check out Zotero - an extension for Firefox 3.0 and above to help collect, manage and cite sources.

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