The document discusses the importance and features of online citation tools for scholars and students, highlighting their capabilities in citation management, bibliography creation, and collaboration. It reviews various tools like Mendeley, Citation Machine, EasyBib, and EndNote, detailing their functionalities in organizing references and generating citations in multiple formats. Overall, these tools significantly streamline the research and writing process by automating citation management and facilitating access to resources.

1. Online Citation Tools
Presented by-
Mr. Mukul Sunil Tambe
Ph. D Scholar,
Faculty of Pharmacy,
MIT-WPU, Pune.
Tuesday,
January 26,
2021
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2. WhatAreOnlinecitationtoolsorreferencemanagementsoftware?
• Referencemanagement software,citationmanagement
softwareor personal bibliographicmanagement software
is softwarefor scholars and authors to use for recording
and utilising bibliographiccitations (references).
• Once a citationhas been recorded,itcan be used time and
again in generating bibliographies, such as lists of
referencesin scholarlybooks, articles and essays.
(Wikipedia)
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3. Features of online citation tools
Create in-text references, bibliographies and footnotes in a
variety of citation styles automatically;
Manage collections of various types of research materials,
including citations, charts, documents,
PDFs, links, equations, screenshots, graphs, images, import
citation information directly from the library’s catalog, online
indexes and databases, and the Web, and share your library of
citations with other researchers;
Format citations for papers and take notes on articles and save
them in collection of citations;
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4. Contd…
Import and export records from online databases and is also able
to connect many online databases to search records easily;
Inform on imported date, data source, and a link if the record
was imported from the web, are automatically stored in the
web-based citation management tools;
Download references from an electronic literature into a
database automatically
Enable to automatically number the references;
Generate the reference list;
Create links between the component of the citation in the
text and the reference list;
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5. Store, edit, sort and manage references;
Create bibliographies electronically;
Import references from databases and library Catalogues;
Change referencing styles with the click of a button;
Edit or create own referencing style;
Cite references in Microsoft word documents
instantly while writing; and
Share references with Other students/research scholars.
Contd…
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6. Online citation tools have proved to be the effective means for
students and research scholars to prepare automatic citations and
find plenty of articles, which they read and subsequently cite in
their work. In this way, online citation tools are crucial in
influencing the students and research scholars saving lot of time
in their final stage of academic/research work.
Contd…
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7. ReferenceManagementTools
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8. FreeReferenceManagementTools*
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9. Mendeley
Mendeley is a FREE reference management software
package, used to manage bibliographies and
references when writing essays and articles.
It’s unique features include its USER FRIENDLYnature
and its role as a SOCIAL NETWORK for collaborating
and sharing documents between groups .
It allows you to promote yourself and your research
while connecting with over four million other
users from around the world.
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10. Microsoft Word-Mendeley Interface
Before doing any thing else, click on Tools and then on Install MS Word Plugin
You will this icon if the plug-in properly isntalled
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11. Adding Reference to the library
Simply drag the files/folder as shown below
Or click on add files, select file, then open
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12. Library created
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13. Mendeley Web (access your library online from everywhere)
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14. Manage Your Library
Use
column
headings
to order
your
references
Mark entries
read or
unread
Entries with
attached
PDFs can be
opened with
the PDF
Reader
Star items to
mark them
as
favorite
s
All items in
your
personal
library
Items added
in the last
two weeks
Access your
recently
read items
All items
you’ve
starred in your
library
Items in
need
of review
Mendeley Desktop’s interface is fairly intuitive
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Create and Use Folders
References not added to a
folder will appear in ‘unsorted’
Your folders will be listed
below. Drag and drop to re-
order them.
Use ‘Create Folder’ to
enter a new folder name.
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16. Search Your Documents
Enter your search
term in the search
field
The main view will be
filtered accordingly
Click on a specific
folder to search
within it
Use the clear button to
remove the search filter
Mendeley’s search tool
will look at reference
metadata, but will also
search within the full
text of PDF papers.
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17. Search Your Documents
Add tags to papers in your
library which share a
common theme
Use the Filter Menu to filter
your library view to only
include tagged items
You can also filter by
Author, Author Keywords
and Publication
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18. Checking for duplicates
Tools
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19. Citation Machine
Citation Machine helps students and professional
researchers to properly credit the information they use. Its
primary goal is to make it easy for student researchers to
cite their information sources.
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20. 1. Open website or search on Google
www.citationmachine.net
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21. 2. Choose your style of citation
(APA, MLA, Chicago, …)
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22. 3. Choose the type of your resource
(book, magazine, newspaper, website, journal, film, other)
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23. 4. Search your resource
that are available in the system
* Search by title, article, author, or keyword are available
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24. 5. Select your resource that you need
from results
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25. 6. ‘Here’s what you found’ appears and
click Final step
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26. 7. Edit/add more details of resource
Then, Create Citation
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27. 8. Copy and paste the citation into your
document
* You also can make short citation from Parenthetical and Check paper
for grammar errors of Grammarly extension.
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28. Your citations will save automatically that
is useful for re-use
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29. EasyBib
EasyBib is one of the most user-friendly
citation options with a full automatic
bibliography maker, and three format
options: MLA, APA, and Chicago. And it
really is easy!
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30. 1. Open website or search on Google
http://www.easybib.com/
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31. 2. Choose your style of citation
(APA, MLA, Chicago, …)
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32. 3. Choose the type of your resource
(website, book, video/film, journal, database, other option)
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33. 4. Search your resource
that are available in the system
* Search by title, article, author, or keyword are available
search
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34. 5. Select your resource that you need
from results
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35. 6. ‘Here’s what we found for you!’ appears and
click Continue to final step!
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36. 7. Edit/add more details of resource Then,
Create Citation
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37. 8. Copy and paste the citation into
your document
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38. Your citations will save automatically that is
useful for re-use
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39. Endnote Web
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40. EndnoteWeb
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41. Collectingreferences
3 ways to bring
referencesontoyour
library
• New Referenceto
manually create
references
• Online search to
searchcatalogues
and selected
databases
• Import references to
bringreferences in
fromdatabases
‘Collect Bonus’ by Frédéric Bisson, https://www.flickr
.com/photos/zigazou76/8522717632/. Licence at
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.
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42. Organising yourreferences
• Manage &Share your
groups
• Locateanddelete
duplicate references
• Manage
attachments
‘Done!!’by Yvonne Eijkenduijn,https://www.flickr
.com/photos/yvestown/298760755/. Licence at
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
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43. FormattingReferences
Use Format tabto:
• Createbibliographies
• GetCiteWhile youWrite
• FormatPaper
• Exportreferences
‘bibliography’by papertrix, https://www.flickr
.com/photos/papertrix/38028138/. Licence at
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/.
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44. Use the CiteWhileYouWrite Toolbarto:
• Insertcitations
• Editcitations
• Changereferencingstyles
• Merge documentstogether
‘Lego on Facebook’ by amarois ,https://www.flickr
.com/photos/amarois/6731246141/. Licence at
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/.
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46. http://www.zotero.org/
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47. Adding Referencesto
Ways to addreference
• Manually
• viaBrowser
• FromDatabases
• byIdentifier
• importwebpage
details
‘Gathering Up the Pine Cones’ byArielle Nadel, https://www.flickr
.com/photos/bunnyrel/7461043566/.
Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/.
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48. Organising referencesin
Manage &Share
yourgroups
Locateanddelete
duplicate references
Manage
attachments
Create
Bibliography
‘Life's More Fun When You're Organized’ by Adam Rifkin, https://www.flickr
.com/photos/ifindkarma/92240723/.
Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.
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49. Use the toolbarto:
• Insertcitations
• Editcitations
• Change referencingstyles
• Merge documentstogether
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