reference management software

Software to use for recording and utilising bibliographic citations (references)

Also known as citation management software · reference manager · personal bibliographic management software

Instance of: software category
Subclass of: software

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Reference management software, citation management software, or bibliographic management software is software that stores a database of bibliographic records and produces bibliographic citations (references) for those records, needed in scholarly research. Once a record has been stored, it can be used time and again in generating bibliographies, such as lists of references in scholarly books and articles.

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18 statements · 17% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Has use: science
academia
bibliometrics
bibliographic information
management class of object(s) of occurrence: bibliography
reference management
Has list: comparison of reference management software
Different from: integrated library system
Uses: bibliographic citation

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