MEDICAL COMPUTER LITERACY

MEDICAL SCHOOL PRE-CLINICAL -

MSPC 202
Reference management software
Topic 16

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Typical researcher writing a paper…

Source: flickr/toennessen

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Manual referencing
Your topic:

article
article
article Your paper
article
citations
• Lots of typing
book
book • Lost references
• Mistakes
conference
conference reference list/bibliography
conference
paper
paper
paper

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What is reference Management Software?
• Software for scholars and authors to use
for recording and utilizing bibliographic
citations (references).

• Helps scholars to create and manage their

lists of references for research/writing
projects.

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Features of reference managers
• Automatically import references of a variety of information sources

• Organize references and create a user’s personal database of

references

• Automatically generates in-text citations and reference lists in a

citation style of one’s choice

• Designed to organize citations into specific formats

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 Benefits of reference managers
• Using reference managers saves lots of time

• Decrease the potential for mistakes made when typing one’s own
reference list

• Database of references created can be used by the author anytime,

anywhere.

• A citation, once downloaded, may be used over and over for different
writing projects

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How a reference manager works

article
article
article
article Your article/thesis
citations
EndNoteWeb
book
book Mendeley
Zotero
Etc
conference reference list/bibliography
conference
paper
conference
paper
paper

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Examples of reference managers
Available for download
free on the internet by
going to
Free http://www.zotero.org
and www.mendeley.com

Subscription Available in Institutions

that subscribe. Please ask
your librarian

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Considerations when choosing a reference
manager
•Free/ subscription

•Offline/online

•Storage capacity

•Ease of setup
Considerations when choosing a reference
manager

• Ease of use - user friendliness

• Quality of support

• Are there easily accessible tutorials?

• Meets my requirements?
Downloading & Installing Mendeley
• Go to www.mendeley.com

• Create/sign up for an account

• Download Mendeley desk top

• Install

• Sign in
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 Account must be
Created using UG email
Address

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Downloading & Installing Zotero
•Go to: https://www.zotero.org/download/

•Click on the Download button

•Save the file to your computer

•Run the setup program to install it

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 Summary
•What is reference management software

•Features of reference management software

•Benefits of reference management software

•How a reference manager works

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 Summary
•Examples of reference management software

•Considerations when choosing a reference

manager

•Downloading & Installing Mendeley

•Downloading & Installing Zotero

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