Mendeley
The Cornell library webpage has good information on various programs available.
Mendeley Libguide (for instruction, videos)
Create a login at Mendeley with your cornell email address
Premium accounts available for the first 500 Cornell users with these benefits:
- increase from 2 GB to 100 GB personal cloud storage
- increase in group storage, from 100 MB to 100 GB
- ability to create unlimited groups of up to 100 members (from 25)
- increase in private group size, from 25 to 100 members
Email us if you are interested in an upgrade.
Citation Management
You may need to use ACS or AIP styles when citing your sources; contact your professor for her preference.
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Chart Comparing Citation ManagersIncludes Refworks, Endnote, Endnote Web, Zotero, Mendeley, Papers
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MendeleyPopular citation management tool. Can drag and drop PDF files easily.
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ZoteroPopular citation-management tool.
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PapersFor Macintosh computers.
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EndnoteFormat, sort, and create bibliographies. Must purchase software unless you're in contract colleges.
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LaTexLaTeX is a document preparation system for typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents.
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BibtexIntended to be used in combination with the typesetting system LaTeX, but it has become possible, for instance, to include BibTeX-bibliographies even in Word-Documents using third-party tools.