Scholarly Resources for Engineering and Applied Sciences Graduate Students: Getting Organized: Citation Management

Citation management tools allow you to retrieve, store, organize, take notes on, and generate citations from all your information sources. Many citation management tools are collaborative and allow you to share sources with peers. This page introduces you to the most popular citation management tools, and provides resources to get started using Zotero.

There are a number of different citation management tools available including:

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After exploring each citation management tool, if you need help deciding which to use I recommend either:

1. Choosing the one that your collaborators use so that you can share sources and notes.
   OR
2. Choosing Zotero because it is free and open source, and because I use Zotero and can help you.

Use Zotero with LaTeX

Zotero does allow you to create BibTeX bibliographic entries. Learn how with these research guides:

Use Zotero with Overleaf

Use Zotero with OneDrive

Zotero provides 300 MB of free storage, but you can use linked files or the ZotFile Plugin to use Zotero with your CU Boulder OneDrive cloud storage.