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Citation Management: EndNote, RefWorks, Zotero

This guide offers basic help for using various citation management systems in addition to answering frequently asked questions and providing NYU-specific information.

Citation Management tools

This guide includes information and access instructions for popular citation management tools EndNoteRefWorks, and Zotero.

Citation Management tools allow you to store and manage references to support literature reviews and other research projects. They have many features that you can use throughout various stages of projects, such as:

Literature Searching

  • Store and share search results from one location.

Literature Screening

  • Organize subsets of references, remove duplicates, include notes, and export references to work with citation screening tools such as Covidence.

Manuscript Writing

  • Automatically insert properly formatted in-text citations and bibliography while you write your manuscript.