Citation management tool for open science | Opensource.com

"I’m a great believer in people doing what works for them. If a stack of papers on your end table works, and if you can always find what you need when you need it, then you probably shouldn’t mess with success. However, if you struggle with your system and feel frustrated by how everything is, or is not, organized, you might consider a citation management tool. Citation management tools are an easy way to organize electronic citations and PDFs into a single interface. They also allow you to export citations as a formatted bibliography. Many of them will also interact with a word processor for in-text citations. The two biggest cost-free, client-based tools are Mendeley and Zotero. I’m going to focus on Zotero, which is free and open source. It’s also the tool I like most for handling my own citations ..."