Reference management software

A reference management software or reference manager is a computer program that serves users for several purposes:

• To maintain an overview of the literature of one aspect such as a scientific discipline
• To help in creating your own scientific publications
• To manage their own literature collections.

The need for such programs is growing with the rapid growth of scientific literature. Reference management programs usually consist of one or more databases in which the references are stored on original texts. The original texts are found, however, in monographs, anthologies, magazine articles, newspaper articles, websites and other document types.

Bibliographic management programs are able to spend the collected titles as bibliography entries in different Zitationsstilen. Among the best known are Zitationsstilen DIN 1505-2, MLA, APA and Harvard. In general, put the publishers or fixed chairs in the universities with which citation style bibliographies of a publication are to be formatted. A formal language for the description of citation is the Citation Style Language (CSL ).

Modern reference management programs such as Zotero, EndNote or Citavi can often be integrated into word processing programs, so that a reference list can be automatically generated in an appropriate format, and the danger of the lack of quoted sources is reduced in the reference list. BibTeX -based reference management programs such as JabRef Word and LibreOffice / OpenOffice can be integrated with the tool BibTeX4Word in Microsoft.

Bibliographic management programs are able to import data from literature databases.

But the functionality of reference management software is growing in many products now on the pure research and management literature also. The Litlink relationally constructed also detects use of extensive data on persons, things, and events and assigns them to the literature data, while it is possible with the knowledge manager in Citavi to save quotes, comments and our own thoughts and to arrange for use in publications.

For LaTeX, the tool can BibTeX available.

Individual reference management programs are described in the articles of the same category (see below) are available.

Web-based bibliographic management programs for common cataloging ( Zotero, BibSonomy, LibraryThing, etc.) are collectively referred to Social Cataloging.