#BEST REFERENCE MANAGER FOR MAC LICENSE#
Only two on this list are free, but even the paid-for options are less expensive than a Netflix subscription (and your university might already have a site license to some of the paid-for options anyway!)īut First – Don’t Use Mendeley or EndNote We’ll start off by talking about citation managers to avoid (I’ll explain why), but below that are five excellent options that you could use to organise your papers. Citation managers are incredibly powerful tools that I think everyone in academia should be using. All of the options below integrate with the cloud, so you can access your research library from anywhere – and they all allow you to extend this collaboratively, so that your group/co-authors can share reference lists. Most citation managers let you output reference lists to Word or LaTeX, saving you countless hours of trying to insert references into your own publications. Keeping an electronic list of papers lets you search, categorise and tag your entire library of papers. Science has never been bigger – the total global scientific output doubles every nine years – and keeping track of everything can feel impossible at the best of times. Reading Time: 7 minutes – Updated: April 2020 – First version: January 2020Īs researchers, we get through dozens or even hundreds of papers per year.
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