Choosing a Citation Manager

Use EndNote:

• Because it is more flexible, customizable and has more citation styles than any other program
• Because it gives you the ability to create your own citation style or document type

Use Mendeley:

• If your research content is primarily contained in PDF files
• Because it has the strongest community platform
  • You can create your own research profile to share and promote your work to scientific communities
  • Make your research and CV discoverable to others in your field
  • See what others in your field are reading and commenting on
  • Network with other scholars to discover research trends and discoveries in your field of study
• Because out of the three, Mendeley is the most similar to social networking sites
• Because it has the strongest website

Use Zotero

• If your research content is diverse
• If you're using many web-based publications and other websites that may be difficult to cite
  • Allows you to easily save snapshots of webpages and annotate them within your citation library
• Because it's best for gathering citation records for non-PDF and PDF content
• Because Zotero's single-click capture works with more databases, catalogs, and websites than Mendeley's Web Importer
• To search for groups relevant to you to network with other scholars in your field of study

Use Noodle Tools

• If you want to learn how to manually put together your citations
• You are new to academic writing and researching and need guidance organizing your research
• If you are an undergraduate writing a short research paper with 10 or fewer sources
• Because teachers can monitor student's research process