Research Guides: Biomedical Engineering: Bibliographic Management Software

Bibliographic Management Software

BIBLIOGRAPHIC MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE - allows you to discover, find, manage, recall and apply the citations you retrieve from all formats of work - journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes, standards, specifications, patents, conference papers & proceedings, lectures, etc. Neither Zotero nor EndNote support BibTeX or LaTeX, only the usual wordprocessing languages or Legal Style Manual. For additional information, please visit the Bibliographic Management Software page.

EndNote
EndNote is another product for Bibliographic Management Software but must be purchased and downloaded on a personal computer. EndNote Web is a modified free product available from the Web of Science Platform.
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There is an abbreviated free web version available via the Web of Science Databases. However, there is no UCI campus license to the full coverage of EndNote and if one chooses to use EndNote, it is recommended that one go to the UCI Bookstore and purchase it with an academic discount, and load it on a personal computer or laptop. Currently the Libraries provide access to EndNote version 6 in the Multimedia Resources Center (MRC), Langson Library Technology Enhanced Classroom (TEC), Interactive Learning Center (ILC), and in the Grunigen Medical Library at the UCI Medical Center. It is recommended that you take the trial on the Registration Page first before you invest in this product to see how it supports your workstyle.
Mendeley
One of the best ways to manage pdfs and other research elements. Highly recommended.
Zotero
Zotero is a free extension for Firefox 2.0, which enables browsers to capture citation information from Web pages quickly and easily, recall and format them for future writing & submission projects. Must be downloaded to personal computer.
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Researchers can add searchable notecards to their citations, organize them with tags, attach files to them, arrange them into folders, or export them as formatted citations. Zotero can capture a single citation or an entire results list of sources, which researchers can work with either online or offline.
Complore
Complore encourages scholars and students to save their lectures, articles, and papers in the bibliographic bookmarking service. Researchers can join groups, subscribe to a site-wide RSS feed, and generate BibTex records.
Bibsonomy
Bibsonomy is a scholarly bookmarking service that offers its users related tags, the ability to create groups, and the ability to export records to BibTex.
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Bibsonomy members can construct friends networks, import their del.icio.us links, generate private entries, and import their BibTex libraries.

Citation Formats

Style Manuals

There are many options. Citation formatting is critical in its consistency. Visit the Citations Subject Guide. Most common ones used by Engineers are IEEE, ACM, APA and Chicago.

Unfortunately, LaTeX is not currently supported in any of the Bibliographic Management Software packages. The usual word processing programs such as MS Word is what is used

The Purdue OWL
Writing and citation assistance for APA and MLA styles provided by Purdue University.
Audiovisual and Online Media
7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
IEEE
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Association: Science Library (SL) Ref, BF 76.7 P85 2001.
6th edition (2010) now available at all reference desks
Ref: BF76.7 .P83 2010
Writer’s Handbook: APA Documentation Style
Site provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center.