Citation Management Tools: Home

Citation or reference management tools allow you to maintain a "personal library" of references, citations, and documents.

Citation managers enable researchers to:

• Capture and organize reference and citations
• Automatically create in-text references, bibliographies and footnotes in a variety of citation styles, MLA, Chicago, APA, etc.
• Manage collections of various types of research materials, including citations, charts, documents, PDFs, links, equations, etc. 
• Import citation information directly from the Library's Catalog, online indexes and databases, and the Web
• Share your library of citations with other researchers

The Bowdoin College Library provides assistance with three citation managers, EndNote, Zotero, and EasyBib.  (Bowdoin College has a site license for EndNote.)  Choosing a tool to use depends on your individual research process, methods, and needs.  In the chart below we have listed the most common uses for citation management tools and have provided our recommendations to meet each need. 

In-depth comparison of citation management tools

Have Zotero, EndNote, citation manager questions?
or to set up an appointment

Contact: 

Zotero, EndNote, or citation managers (Karen Jung)

EndNote (Sue O'Dell)