Research Guides: Mathematics: Write and Cite

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For writing assistance on the Boulder Campus, contact the Writing Center, which is located in Norlin Library. Both graduate and undergraduate students can meet with a writing tutor and receive help with any stage of the writing process.
- If you are a graduate student, you can apply to participate in the Graduate Student Writing Support Program that provides support through a larger project, such as a dissertation or thesis.
Additionally, Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers a wide variety of resources about academic writing.

Citation management software can help you easily generate in-text citations and bibliographies.
It can also help you organize your research by topic or project.
Zotero is a popular and free citation manager. If you need help setting up Zotero or using it, contact your librarian.

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

Better BibTeX for Zotero Better BibTeX (BBT) is an extension for Zotero and Juris-M that makes it easier to manage bibliographic data, especially for people authoring documents using text-based toolchains (e.g. based on LaTeX / Markdown)
Managing References with LaTeX/BibTeX A research guide from the University of Melbourne Libraries.
Using Zotero with LaTeX and BibTeX FAQ A research guide from Princeton University Library

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.

Zotero: Linked Files Zotero support page on Linked Files and ZotFile plugin.
Using Zotero with Cloud Storage Services like OneDrive Step-by-step guide from the Washington State University Libraries