Reference Management Programs

With reference management programs

  • you can export and administrate bibliographic data of books, articles and other publications;
  • you can create bibliographies for academic papers comfortably and according to a citation style of your choice;
  • often support the scientific writing process in all phases - from researching relevant information to structuring and analysing the literature to writing the actual paper.

Many databases and catalogues offer the possibilitv of automatic export of bibliographic data into reference  management programs. Please note the "Export", "Save" or "Download" fields.
Reference management programs are useful when the number of bibliographic data is growing and the handling of simple reading lists becomes too confusing.

Tutorials: Reference management with Citavi (German only)
Reference management with EndNote (German only)