Citation & Document Managers

The Bioscience Library provides basic assistance in using three citation and document managers: EndNote, QUOSA, and RefWorks. QUOSA is helpful primarily for retrieving the full text of articles from database searches, and helping you store and organize those PDFs on your own computer. EndNote and Refworks are for managing citations, formatting papers, and creating bibliographies in a variety of styles. They all work together in some ways to help streamline your research and document management.

Supported Citation & Document Managers

EndNote: (PC, Mac)

EndNote is a proprietary software program produced by ISI ResearchSoft. It is a powerful desktop application that many bioscience researchers find useful.
EndNote Support | EndNote Comparison | Purchase EndNote

QUOSA: (PC, Mac)

Quosa is a software tool that automatically retrieves full-text articles from your searches in PubMed, Web of Science, BIOSIS, Zoological Record, and INSPEC. It has several additional features, including tools to organize, search, and export articles and citations to EndNote or RefWorks.
QUOSA Support | QUOSA Comparison

RefWorks: (PC, Mac)

UC Berkeley has a site license to RefWorks, a web-based, easy-to-use citation management program.  RefWorks is free to UCB faculty, staff, and students.
RefWorks Support | RefWorks Comparison

Unsupported but Recommended Citation and Document Managers

CiteUlike:

CiteULike is an online social bookmarking tool specifically made for academic papers. CiteULike Comparison

Papers: (Mac only)

Papers is an application for Mac to search, retrieve, organize, read, and make notes in papers. Papers has a good interface for reading PDF documents and making notes on your computer screen (without Adobe Acrobat Professional!). Papers is designed to work with EndNote or RefWorks, but will not create bibliographies on its own. Papers Comparison

Zotero

Zotero is a Firefox extension that helps manage documents found online through the browser. Zotero Comparison