Literature management program

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A literature management program or reference manager is a computer program that is used by users for several purposes:

The need for such programs grows with the rapid increase in scientific literature. Reference management programs usually consist of one or more databases in which the references to original texts are stored. The original texts, on the other hand, can be found in monographs , compilations, magazine articles, newspaper articles, websites and other types of documents.

Reference management programs are able to output the collected title entries as a bibliography in different citation styles. The most popular citation styles include ISO 690 , MLA , APA, and Harvard . As a rule, the publishers or chairs at the universities determine the citation style with which the bibliography of a publication is to be formatted. A formal language for describing citation styles is the Citation Style Language (CSL).

Modern reference management programs such as Citavi , Docear , EndNote or Zotero can often be integrated into word processing programs so that a reference list can be generated automatically in a suitable format and the risk of cited sources being missing in the reference list is reduced. BibTeX- based reference management programs such as JabRef can be integrated into Microsoft Word and LibreOffice / OpenOffice using the BibTeX4Word and Docear4Word tools .

Reference management programs are often able to import data from literature databases or from websites.

However, the range of functions of literature management programs is now growing for many products beyond the pure research and management of literature references. The relationally structured Litlink , for example, also records extensive data about people, things and events and assigns them to the literature data, while the Knowledge Manager in Citavi allows you to save quotations, comments and your own thoughts and organize them for use in publications . Citavi also has a project management system, with which tasks with deadlines and processing status can be entered for titles.

The BibTeX and BibLaTeX tools are available for LaTeX .

Individual reference management programs are described in the articles that are accessible via the category of the same name (see below).

Web-based literature management programs for collaborative cataloging ( Zotero , BibSonomy , LibraryThing etc.) are summarized under the name Social Cataloging .

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