Bibliographic management services
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Most of the bibliographic management products, essentially, have the same functions. The differences between the services are in their design, functionality, price, and hosting. The most user friendly service might not be the most highly functioning service, and the most highly functioning service might not be the priciest. There have been many releases of bibliographic management software over the years, but for the purposes of brevity this page will only compare those are most recently updated, commonly used, or offer unique functions. This page will explore the different options one must consider when choosing a bibliographic manager.
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Price
Paid
- Biblioscape
- Citavi (Free for projects under 100 references)
- End Note
- Mendeley
- Papers
- PDF Stacks
- Reference Manager
- RefWorks
- Sente
- Zotero (Extra storage space)
Free
- BibDesk
- Citavi (Under 100 references)
- JabRef
- KBibText
- Pybliographer
- Qigga
- Zotero (Up to 100 MB storage)
Open Source vs. Proprietary Software
Open Source
- BibDesk
- JabRef
- KBibTex
- Zotero
Proprietary Code Software
- Citavi
- EndNote
- Mendeley
- Papers
- PDF Stacks
- Qigga
- Reference Manager
- RefWorks
Operating System
Mac OSX
- BibDesk
- EndNote
- JabRef
- Mendeley
- Papers
- PDF Stacks
- RefWorks
- Sente
- Zotero
Windows
- Citavi
- EndNote
- JabRef
- Mendeley
- PDF Stacks
- Qigga
- Reference Manager
- RefWorks
- Zotero
Linux
- JabRef
- KBibTex
- Mendeley
- Pybliographer
- Zotero
Citation Styles
For this section, instead of listing each style individually, each bibliographic management software will be highlighted with a list of styles it supports.
- BibDesk - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- Citavi - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- EndNote - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- JabRef - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- KBibTex - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- Mendeley - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- Papers - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- Pybliographer - APA
- Qigga - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- Reference Manager - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- RefWorks - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- Sente - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
- Zotero - APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA
Conclusion
If one is under the assumption that free is better than paid services, open source is preferred to proprietary software, the more operating systems that support the software the better, and supporting all citation styles is preferred then the conclusion must be drawn that the superior bibliographic management services, not necessarily for Evergreen but in general, are JabRef and Zotero which are all free, open source, compatible with all operating systems, and support all citation styles.
