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Introduction
See also Citation management  & Social bookmarking sites
Bibliographic citation software refers to tools that help scholars create and manage their lists of references for research projects. Most tools are designed to organize citations into specific formats for the preparation of manuscripts and bibliographies. Managing research output is an integral part of the research process and information management. Freely-accessible search tools like Google scholar provide ways to download references into citation management tools. There are a number of free tools such as Zotero but the more popular tools require buying into an annual subscription.
Available tools
ColWiz (Collective Wisdom) (free)
- ColWiz (Collective Wisdom)
 is a research management, collaboration and productivity platform for researchers, academics and students
Connotea (free)
- Connotea is a free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists. It is completely free, with no downloaded client required.
EndNote ($$)
- EndNote is a commercial reference management software package used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Developed by Thomson Scientific, the current version is EndNote X2 (12) for Windows and EndNote X1 (11) for Mac OS X. Here is its official website.
Mendeley (free)
- Mendeley - Manage, Share & Discover Research a free service that allows you to index and organize your pdfs, collaborate with fellow researchers and share information via shared and public collections, and discover new papers through the Mendeley research network.
Procite ($$)
- ProCite is a commercial reference management software sold by the Thomson Corporation. It was very popular as a standalone citation management tool until various web-based versions were created. Here is its official website.
Quosa ($$)
- Quosa helps scientists and researchers manage scientific and technical documents. It focuses on literature search tools for both academic and commercial life science professionals and researchers. QUOSA's Information Manager boosts search and management capability and efficiency for individual users. Its Virtual Library is a document repository solution that enhances team sharing and alerting.
RefWorks ($$)
 The new RefWorks 2.0 - goes live July 2011 Subscribers store their RefWorks database online, use and update it from anywhere and share data with others. Universities subscribe to RefWorks on behalf of students and faculty. The software enables linking to electronic editions of journals to which the university libraries hold subscriptions. Linking is accomplished by incorporating an OpenURL resolver. RefWorks is simple to use and researchers use a sharing tool called RefShare. Like other web-based programs, RefWorks lets you gather, store, manage and share references or citations. It also helps to generate bibliographies and formatted papers. References are stored online, and accessible from any web-connected computer.
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WizFolio (free)
- WizFolio - online research collaboration tool for knowledge discovery; share all types of information including research papers, patents, documents, books, YouTube videos, web snippets
Zotero (free)
Canadian context
When many Canadian academic libraries moved to web-based versions of bibliographic management software such as RefWorks, there were concerns about storing data on American servers. Some Canadian universities had users' accounts and data stored on an American server which was subject to the US Patriot Act. In 2001, this is not the case because all data was moved to Canadian servers at the University of Toronto in 2007.
Reference management and social bibliographic tools
See also Social bookmarking sites
Most of these tools are free to use on the web, unless you require a premium version.
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