Literature and citation management

P. Schulze, C. Gamst

Introduction Literature and citation management JabRef Examples: JabRef and Zotero Zotero

Philipp Schulze Cornelia Gamst

Technische Universität Berlin

December 1, 2014

1 / 6 What does this software do? collects reference data (author, year, ...) provides bibliography files also useful to structure literature collections

Examples EndNote, JabRef, Mendeley, Refworks, Zotero

Literature and Introduction citation management

P. Schulze, Why to use citation management software C. Gamst growing scientific literature Introduction need for structure and clarity JabRef Zotero desired: creating and maintaining bibliographies efficiently (simple reuse, consistency of data)

2 / 6 Examples EndNote, JabRef, Mendeley, Refworks, Zotero

Literature and Introduction citation management

P. Schulze, Why to use citation management software C. Gamst growing scientific literature Introduction need for structure and clarity JabRef Zotero desired: creating and maintaining bibliographies efficiently (simple reuse, consistency of data)

What does this software do? collects reference data (author, year, ...) provides bibliography files also useful to structure literature collections

2 / 6 Literature and Introduction citation management

P. Schulze, Why to use citation management software C. Gamst growing scientific literature Introduction need for structure and clarity JabRef Zotero desired: creating and maintaining bibliographies efficiently (simple reuse, consistency of data)

What does this software do? collects reference data (author, year, ...) provides bibliography files also useful to structure literature collections

Examples EndNote, JabRef, Mendeley, Refworks, Zotero

2 / 6 Literature and JabRef citation management

P. Schulze, C. Gamst

Introduction

JabRef

Zotero

open source citation management software runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X file format: BibTeX graphical user interface ... more in the hands-on session

3 / 6 Literature and Jabref - additions citation management

P. Schulze, C. Gamst

Not presented functionalities Introduction abbreviations of journal titles JabRef import/export of data Zotero BibTeX Strings comprehensive customising capabilities ...

For more information see documentation at http://jabref.sourceforge.net/documentation.php

4 / 6 Literature and Zotero citation management

P. Schulze, C. Gamst

Introduction

JabRef

Zotero

“a free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research sources” comes as Firefox plugin or standalone application automatic library synchronization automatic citation and pdf retrieval from internet BibTeX exports ... more in the hands-on session

5 / 6 Literature and Zotero - additions citation management

P. Schulze, C. Gamst

Not presented functionalities Introduction JabRef automatic attachments Zotero import/export of data other plugins ...

For more information see documentation at https://www.zotero.org/support/start

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