Best Reference Management Software

Products Buyer's Guide
8.8
ReadCube Papers
★★★★★

ReadCube Papers

Papers helps you collect and curate the research material that you're passionate about. This award winning reference manager will improve the way you find, organize, read, cite and share.

Best reference manager - Abigail M.

Ease of use
8.6
Support
8.8
Ease of Setup
8.6

Languages supported: English

8.8
EasyBib.com
★★★★★

EasyBib.com

EasyBib.com provides citation, note-taking and research tools. EasyBib offers free and premium services for individuals and institutions.

A simple Choice - Calvaro M.

Ease of use
9.0
Support
8.7
Ease of Setup
8.7
8.6
Biblioscape
★★★★★

Biblioscape

The revolutionary Microsoft Word integration displays your references and notes inside Word. Cite references by drag-and-drop and see the results instantly.

Easy to comprehend and organize for all your academic papers - Falak M.

Ease of use
8.8
Support
8.3
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.8
Zotero
★★★★★

Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

Great Tool to Manage Any References - Scruffs O.

Ease of use
8.4
Support
8.9
Ease of Setup
8.6
8.6
Citationsy
★★★★★

Citationsy

Citationsy is a reference tool to create citations, reference lists, and bibliographies.

Very user friendly! - Mariely V.

Ease of use
9.0
Support
8.3
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: English

8.4
Sorc’d
★★★★★

Sorc’d

Sorc'd empowers content creators to build stronger content, faster through a cloud-powered knowledge database of digestible snippets of relevant content, substantially decreasing research time and giving users more time to focus on what matters. Sorc'd seamlessly integrates with numerous content creation systems, such as Microsoft Office and Google Docs.

Great research tool - User in Education Management

Ease of use
8.6
Support
8.2
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: English

9.0
citeulike
★★★★★

citeulike

citeulike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references

Ease of Use with citeulike - User in Research

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6.4
figshare
★★★★★

figshare

Figshare is an online digital repository where researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos. It is free to upload content and free to access, in adherence to the principle of open data.

Good repository, but not much visited - Kira S.

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7.8
RefWorks
★★★★★

RefWorks

RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool that is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Too much hassle, to be efficient. Plenty of bugs.. - User in Research

Ease of use
8.1
Support
7.6
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.6
Mendeley
★★★★★

Mendeley

Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online.

The best program for processing a bibliography of research paper - Agung R.

Ease of use
8.7
Support
8.6
Ease of Setup
8.1
9.0
refbase
★★★★★

refbase

refbase can import and export references in various formats (including BibTeX, Endnote, RIS, PubMed, ISI Web of Science, CSA Illumina, RefWorks, MODS XML, OpenOffice, and MS Word). It can make formatted lists of citations in HTML, RTF, PDF, or LaTeX, and offers powerful searching, and RSS support.

Great Free Bibliographic database - Administrator in Higher Education

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8.0
BibSonomy
★★★★★

BibSonomy

BibSonomy helps you to manage your publications and bookmarks, to collaborate with your colleagues and to find new interesting material for your research.

Publication and Bookmark Organization is Possible with BibSonomy - Diego A.

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7.6
wizdom.ai
★★★★★

wizdom.ai

wizdom.ai utilizes desktop, web and mobile technologies synced in real time, the platform allows managing of all aspects of the individual and collaborative research practices.

Comprehensive product for research data - Krishn G.

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4.0
Qiqqa
★★★★★

Qiqqa

Qiqqa's powerful research and knowledge management tools let you search for, record, share, and instantly recall the important information from thousands of your documents with ease.

Don't send them your money! BEWARE - Joan M.

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8.4
Paperpile
★★★★★

Paperpile

No-fuss reference management for the web. Sync your PDFs to Google Drive and cite your papers in Google Docs.

Best citation manager for Google Docs - Noor H.

Ease of use
8.8
Support
8.3
Ease of Setup
8.2
8.2
EndNote
★★★★★

EndNote

Find, use and share research with EndNote. It's for more than bibliographies. Sync your EndNote library across your desktop, iPad and online. Work on your research from anywhere.

Endnote Online: Free for Students and Integrates Well with Microsoft Word - Andreas G.

Ease of use
7.3
Support
8.2
Ease of Setup
8.1
9.6
Citavi
★★★★★

Citavi

Citavi is a user-friendly reference management and knowledge organization program for researchers and students.

Very impressed about the application and services - Pierre S.

Ease of use
8.3
Support
0.0
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: German, English, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish

9.2
Sciwheel
★★★★★

Sciwheel

A software built to discover, read, annotate, write and share scientific research.

Best solution for collaborating in writing scientific manuscripts - Miftahul I.

Ease of use
9.1
Support
9.2
Ease of Setup
8.8

Languages supported: English

9.4
JabRef
★★★★★

JabRef

JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format.

I have 5 years of experience in this tool - Administrator in Automotive

Ease of use
9.8
Support
9.2
Ease of Setup
9.6
8.6
cite4me.org
★★★★★

cite4me.org

Cite4me.org is a free research and reference tool designed to help users cite sources, check content for plagiarism, format and keep papers in one place.

Take the guesswork out of citing - User in Research

Ease of use
9.2
Support
8.3
Ease of Setup
8.6
7.2
Reference Manager
★★★★★

Reference Manager

Reference Manager is the powerful bibliographic solution for workgroups, networks and collaborative projects. Search online databases, organize references easily, and watch your bibliography appear as you write.

Makes searching online databases so much easier. - User in Media Production

Ease of use
8.5
Support
6.3
Ease of Setup
8.1
9.0
Aigaion
★★★★★

Aigaion

Aigaion is a php/mysql based multi-user system for managing annotated bibliographies. It allows the user(s) to order publications in a self-chosen (overlapping) topic structure, offers BibTex and RIS import and export and has an intuitive user interface.

Nice Product: Something I have been looking for years - User in Education Management

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9.0
Bookends
★★★★★

Bookends

Bookends is a full-featured and cost-effective bibliography, reference, and information management system for students and professionals.

Information resource - Tucker J.

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8.0
RefDB
★★★★★

RefDB

RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX/BibTeX documents.

RefDB, very convenient. - User in Building Materials

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8.0
BibBase
★★★★★

BibBase

BibBase.org is an easy way to set up and maintain a scientific publications page.

BibBase review - User in Education Management

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7.0
WIKINDX
★★★★★

WIKINDX

WIKINDX is a free Virtual Research Environment (an online bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system) designed either for single use (on a variety of operating sytems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet.

This is how to avoid a lawsuit or unexpected expenses - Juan G.

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6.0
MyBib
★★★★★

MyBib

Automatically create bibliographies, references, and citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and over 8000 more styles with a totally free and no-ads citation

A Simple and Effective Citation Platform - Erik D.

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5.0
Noodle Tools
★★★★★

Noodle Tools

NoodleTools is an online research management platform that promotes critical thinking and authentic research.

review - ChloГ© V.

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4.0
SciRef
★★★★★

SciRef

By using SciRef you can automatically download pdf-files from the supported services, link local files to citation record in SciRef, export pdf files from local storage to external drives or folders, automatically import RIS files with related pdfs, view pdf directly in SciRef window.

SciRef for a PhD Student - User in Hospital & Health Care

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