Guides for Popular
Writing Syles:
AMA Manual
of Style : A Guide for Authors and Editors
The AMA
Manual of Style, 11th edition. Online edition.
From the Purdue Online
Writing Lab:
Citation generators and converters
All three programs (Mendeley, Zotero, and
Endnote Basic):
- Free, reference management software that are
accessible anywhere online
- Capture and organize all your research without
ever leaving the browser with add-ons or extensions
- Connect with Microsoft Word to insert
citations and format them automatically according to popular styles
- Allow you to save PDFs into your library
- Minimum free 300MB of online storage
Mendeley (PC, Mac, Linux)
- Free software that you can use online and
download to a computer. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- Download Mendeley Reference Manager, previously
called Mendeley Desktop
- Organizes and manages the pdfs that are already
on your computer
- Free 2GB of online storage
- Introduces social networking tools to
collaborate with fellow researchers, including sharing lists of references and
collaborative tagging of documents
- Sync PDFs to your web account for access to
them anywhere you are online
- Annotate PDFs.
- Search within the text of all of your PDFs
- Web importer to your browser for quickly adding
articles or webpages
- Difficulty importing accurate metadata for some
source types
Zotero (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS) Zotero
[zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite,
and share your research sources.
- Free, open-source reference management software
with a desktop version and an online version.
- Zotero for Firefox lets you capture and
organize all your research without ever leaving the browser
- Zotero Standalone runs as a separate
application and plugs into your choice of browser
- Free 300MB of online storage
- Automatically capture citation information from
web pages via Zotero's single click capture (browser add-on/extension)
- Import citations from other citation
managers
- Create bibliographies in Microsoft Word, Google
Docs and OpenOffice
- Limited free cloud-based storage space; works
best with one primary workstation
EndNote Basic
- Online version of EndNote free to MUSM faculty,
students and staff via the libraries' subsciption to Web of Science.
- Access via
https://www.myendnoteweb.com/
anywhere or via MUSM Library subscription to Clarivate Analytics
Web of
Science
- Free 2GB of online storager
- Attach PDFs to your library
- Web/browser add-on available for quickly adding
articles or webpages
Questions?
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