Citing

​Reference management or literature management is systematically collecting, saving and arranging concrete sources and/or bibliographical data (references) of sources, usually to be (re)used at a later stage.

There are many ways to save and arrange literature and references:

• Saving a paper copy
• Saving downloads of full text publications
• Creating bookmarks in your browser
• Making lists in Word or Excel for instance
• Using specific programmes/tools such as EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley and many others

​​Major uses of tools such as Zotero, Mendeley, RefWorks en EndNote are:

• Collecting and saving the bibliographical data of your sources
• Consulting your sources; by means of a saved PDF, or by clicking on the links to an external full text
• Referring to sources in your own texts (in various styles)
• Creating reading lists (in various styles)

Useful help functions: 

• Deduplication
• Arranging in folders
• Labelling by means of tags
• Sharing with others

Want to find out more? Read the LibGuide Reference management