Geological Sciences

Citation Managers are bibliographic management programs that will help you keep track of articles and books as you find them, organize your references and create bibliographies in 100s of citation styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.)

They will also allow you to:

• Import citations as you research from databases and catalogs
• Save and organize citations
• Attach PDFs of articles, when available
• Embed citations (footnotes or in-text) into your word processing documents
• Collaborate with others online
• Discover the latest research

The most popular citation managers are EndNote and Zotero. Remember to always check with your professor if you are not sure.

EndNote - Web version (EndNote Online or EndNote Basic) free to anyone; integrates with MS Word; the Instruction Labs at the University Library have the Cite-While-You-Write plug-in on Word for students to access their EndNote web accounts

Zotero - Free to anyone; integrates with MS Word and/or Google Docs; must be installed on your own computer 

EndNote Web:

• Help with EndNote Web (from your CSUN librarian)
• EndNote FAQ (from EndNote website)
• EndNote YouTube Channel
• EndNote LibGuide (Clarivate)

​Zotero:

• Zotero's support page for instructions.
• A step-by-step video