Bibliography Tools

 To just gather information from online source together and to record the source you can you use:

Evernote - http://evernote.com/

Free to sign up for and the web based version is available in school.

Or you could make use of

Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/ 

This social media tool allows you to create any number of pinboard collections of images from the internet or uploaded from your computer. 

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If you want it to create a bibilography there are 4 things you need the software to do:
  • import references from a number of difference sources (eg websites, library catalogues, bibliographic databases etc)
  • manage and/or edit the references once they’re in the system, and add manually any references that you cannot find online
  • export references into the document that you’re writing, either as a single bibliography, or individually, often called “cite while you write” which generates a list of references.
  • format the bibliography according the referencing style of your choice, and re-format if/when necessary
Zotero – www.zotero.org
Zotero is an open source product that is a plug in for Mozilla Firefox. Here is a quick how-to:
Zotero is free, but you can get extra storage space and more flexibility for a monthly subscription if you need it.

Mendeley – www.mendeley.com
This is a download that you install on your computer. There is a free version but more features and increased storage are available if you chose to subscribe.
 There’s an introduction video available from the home page and plenty other help.

 CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org/

Unlike the others this doesn't let you cite as you write but it will produce a bibilography for you in whatever style you require.
It lets you add a button to your browser so it's easy to gather references and you can choose to share these or not.

Other options available include:

BibMe - http://bibme.org

EasyBib - http://www.easybib.com

NoodleTools - http://www.noodletools.com

Son of Citation Machine - http://citationmachine.net

(This page is adapted from http://cpd23.blogspot.com/2011/08/thing-14-zotero-mendeley-citeulike.html )

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