Citation Management Software

Special software can help you to organize your research and easily create footnotes, citations, and formatted bibliographies. The four basic functions of citation management software are:

• Save references from research databases, or create new references
• Add value to references with notes and keywords
• Insert citations into a document
• Format a bibliography for that document in a selected style (for example, Chicago, APA, or a specific journal style)

For additional information, see:

• How do I choose the right software? http://www.lib.umich.edu/knc/howto/citation/citationdata.htm
• EndNote http://www.lib.umich.edu/knc/howto/citation/endnote/
• RefWorks http://www.lib.umich.edu/knc/howto/citation/refworks/
• ProCite is no longer supported. Please see above for other options.

Citation Guides

• Citation and Style Guidelines http://www.lib.umich.edu/grad/readyref/citation.html
• APA Bibliographic Style (PDF) http://www.lib.umich.edu/handouts/apa.pdf
• MLA Bibliographic Style (PDF) http://www.lib.umich.edu/handouts/mla.pdf
• Citing Sources in the Sciences (PDF) http://www.lib.umich.edu/science/gensci/citingsources.html
• Government Documents http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/cite.html