Guides & Tutorials: SD Capstone Research Subjects: Reference Management

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Reference Management

Reference Management Tools

Reference management tools allow you to share references with groupmates, and easily change to any citation styles as required.

Here are some commonly used reference management tools:

EndNote
a tool to help you manage references and citations for your thesis and journal publications;
it is powerful in customization, e.g. to customize a citation style for a journal

•  Download EndNote from Library
•  Enroll EndNote Online Course on Learn@PolyU and learn basics about EndNote, e.g. how to download citations from various sources and insert in Word doc.
•  Check out Library EndNote Guide for more, including troubleshooting FAQs

Other free tools:

Mendeley
a free cross-platform application (Windows, macOS, Linux) that helps you organize and manage references
Zotero
an open-source reference management tool; offers browser connectors which makes it easy in capturing references from webpages