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Bibliographic management tools
Bibliographic management tools can save you time by allowing you to compile, create, and organize bibliographic references and build a bibliographic database. When you are ready to create your bibliography, all of your references are in one convenient location. Once you’ve imported (or created) your records, select an output style, and then let the program create your bibliographies for you.
The Research Library supports EndNote and RefWorks. Both EndNote and RefWorks are fully integrated with MS Word which creates your citations while you write your paper according to the style output you have selected. Additional functionality includes searching online catalogs and/or databases (e.g. Library of Congress, PubMed). See the table below for more comparison.
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Features |
Output |
Fee |
Access |
EndNote http://www.endnote.com/
Windows: v. X 2 (12) (2008);
Mac OS X: v. X2 (12) (2008) |
Import references from text & RIS files or databases. Organize and store. Create bibliographies. |
Output styles include: Chicago, APA, Harvard, MLA, and more. |
Available for purchase at LANL through ESD. |
Installed locally on your computer. No remote access. |
RefWorks (web-based)
http://www.refworks.com
Users must set up an account using a LANL email address to access. |
Import references from text & RIS files or databases. Organize, store, share and collaborate with RefShare. Create bibliographies. |
Output styles include: Chicago, APA, Harvard, MLA, and more |
No fee; Research Library provides license for LANL. |
Web based; available remotely. |
Another tool used by the scientific community is BibTeX, "a tool and a file format which are used to describe and process lists of references, mostly in conjunction with LaTeX documents." OPPIE offers export in BibTex format, to a txt file which you can import into BibTeX.
Downloading citations
You can download citations into bibliographic management tools from many databases, including:
- OPPIE
- the Research Library Catalog
- GeoRef and other CSA databases
- PubMed
- Any database that is able to output in RIS format (a tagged format of expressing the bibliographic citation)
More information
For training or help, please contact the Research Library at 667-5809 or by email.
A more comprehensive list and comparison of reference management tools can be found at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software.
Open source and proprietary bibliographic software and standards from Open Office.org:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Software_and_Standards_Information
More about BibTeX:
http://www.bibtex.org/.org
What's RIS?
RIS is a tagged format of expressing the bibliographic citation. An industry standard, it is used by EndNote, RefWorks, ProCite, Reference Manager, and other bibliographic management tools.
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