Citation Management
You may need to use IEEE, ACS or AIP styles when citing your sources; contact your professor for her preference.
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ZoteroPopular citation-management tool. Recommend if you're just starting.
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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.
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MendeleyPopular citation management tool. Can drag and drop PDF files easily. Not being regularly updated.