Free Bibliography Software For Mac

Use: Why: Work from multiple computers or locations. Zotero saves your citation library to your local computer, but syncs with multiple computers so you can work from home, work, or school. Mendeley is a program that lives on your local computer, but syncs with a web account. EndNote Web is web based. Although EndNote isn't free, it is certainly high quality. If you're in a technical or scientific field, Mendeley is an excellent option for you. This reference management software allows users to generate citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and LaTeX. What is BibDesk for Mac. BibDesk is a bibliographic reference manager for OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX.bib format. In addition to manual typing, BibDesk lets you drag-and-drop or cut-and-paste.bib files into the bibliographic database and automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed. Bookends is a full-featured bibliography/reference and information-management system for students and professionals. Bookends uses the cloud to sync reference libraries on all the Macs you use. Access the power of Bookends directly from Mellel, Nisus Writer Pro, or MS Word (including Word 2016): Bookends allows you to scan your existing word. Mellel is an advanced, multilingual word processor built for Mac OS X. Designed for scholars and writers, it offers innovative page, paragraph, and character styles, outline, tables, headers and footers, citations and bibliography, tabs, and much more. License: Shareware, $59.

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Free Citation Software

It is a common task that can become a struggle for scientists to collect, organise, and cite references. Several pieces of software have been made over the years to help us with those activities. If you know any please share them here with your comments on usability, features, and reliability.

Cross-platform bibliography solutions

Bibus - opensource bibliography manager similar to EndNote for RefMan (Mac, Win, Linux)
Zotero - Firefox extension to help collect, manage, and cite references
CiteULike - online bibliography management (see also Wikipedia entry on CiteULike)
Mendeley - Desktop (Win, Mac & Linux) and online social software for managing and sharing research papers. (Free)
RefFormer - online software for extraction of journal references from text

Reference software for the Mac

BibDesk (BibTex reference database w PubMed download, free)
Skim - PDF reader and annotation software (free)
Papers (bibliography software by MekenTosj, shareware)
Endnote was also ported to the Mac but has been more or less buggy during recent version history; also different library and search windows cause a lot of screen clutter
add your favorite here with a comment