Best Reference Management Software for Microsoft Word

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    Sorc'd Reviews

    Sorc'd

    Sorc'd

    $15 per month
    Sorc'd was created to help people be more productive, share and strengthen relevant information from reliable sources, and be less overwhelmed by the overwhelming amount of information. You can recall the most important information from your cloud-based account, or find new information from others. Add snippets of your online repository to your writing, or share via social media channels. Our Chrome extension allows you to capture snippets directly from your browser while researching. You can then integrate these snippets directly into your content from Google Docs or Google Slides. Sorc'd, a Google add-on for Google Office Suite, is free and offers the most convenient way to: 1. You can import snippets from Sorc’d directly into a Google Doc or Google Slide, or Google Sheet. Export snippets from within a Google Doc or Slide or Sheet that you might want to refer later, import into new content and share with colleagues or through social media outlets.
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    ReadCube Papers Reviews

    ReadCube Papers

    ReadCube

    $3 per month
    You can search across your favorite scholarly search engines in app or via our handy browser extensions. Enjoy 1-click downloads to add full-text PDFs and references to your library. To ensure that you never miss an important paper, check out our personalized recommendation engine. Papers allows you to focus on the task at hand using our full-screen EnhancedPDF reader. You can highlight, underline, strike through and draw, as well as add sticky notes. You can switch between documents using tabs. You can also view supplemental files and jump to the referenced articles. Papers automatically matches imported articles with the full metadata and available citations. Papers users can create private shared libraries to collaborate with up 30 other Papers users at once. Add your collaborator by email to be added to your shared directory.
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    Paperpile Reviews

    Paperpile

    Paperpile

    $2.99 per month
    Paperpile is a web-based reference management tool that's simple, clean, and easy to use. Sync your library across all your devices to read and annotate on paper, iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. Cite your papers in Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Use folders, labels, and stars to organize your papers. You can search your library in real time. You can automatically fix duplicates and correct references that have insufficient data. With one click, download PDFs and sync them to your Google Drive. All your files are instantly available on all devices. Google Drive offers enough storage to store even the largest libraries. Highlight the most important parts of your papers using different colors. Comment right where they belong. You can share your private sharing links with anyone, not just Paperpile users. Paperpile allows you to manage your references collaboratively. Google Docs makes it easy for you to collaborate with colleagues on a paper.
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    EndNote Reviews

    EndNote

    Clarivate

    $110.53 one-time payment
    Did you know that researchers spend nearly 200,000 hours a year formatting citations. Imagine if you could get that time back to use for your research. EndNote 20 speeds up your research process, so you can concentrate on what really matters: sharing and conducting groundbreaking research. You can collaborate across borders easily. You can share a portion or all of your library, and you can set access permissions. Use tools to locate PDFs for you during your search process. You can then quickly read, review, annotation, and search PDFs from your library. Use Manuscript Matcher to match your paper with reputable journals. To organize your references automatically, create rules. For multitasking, you can use the Tabs feature.
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    Sciwheel Reviews

    Sciwheel

    Sciwheel

    $9.95 per month
    You can save references directly from the internet, including Google Scholar or PubMed. We'll save any interesting article you find, including the URL, full citation data, and the PDF (if available). You can view your notes and coauthor comments without leaving your document. You can search for notes you have made after you create them. Notes can be accessed from any page that you visit, whether it is an article or a PDF. Our algorithm suggests articles to make sure you don't miss an important paper. While writing your paper, you can search for related articles. You can search multiple databases and find your references within Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Your bibliography can be automatically generated in any of the 7,000+ styles. Smart citation suggestions* ensure that you never miss an important article. You can read, annotate, and save articles from any device (Android or iOS). All your references, notes, and suggested articles are available across all your devices.
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    Biblioscape Reviews

    Biblioscape

    Biblioscape

    $39 one-time payment
    Biblioscape eliminates the need to type a reference. Simply click the "Internet” button in a reference folder. Each site has a brief description and 40+ popular bibliographic databases. Search the database to find the records you are looking for, then click on the button to save them to your database. Many sites allow you to export bibliographic records directly. You can also use any web browser to download records directly into the Biblioscape database. Biblioscape allows you to search against the catalogs of public and university libraries. Search results will automatically be downloaded to the "Online Search” folder in your Biblioscape database. There are over 2,500 library connection files already prepared. Biblioscape allows you to add more.
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    Zotero Reviews
    Zotero is the only software to automatically detect research on the internet. Do you need an article from JSTOR? Or a preprint from ArXiv.org. Need a news story from The New York Times? Or a book from a library. Zotero covers everything. Zotero makes it easy to organize your research in any way you like. You can organize items into collections and tag them using keywords. You can also create saved searches that fill automatically with relevant materials as your work progresses. Zotero can optionally sync your data across devices. This allows you to keep your notes, files and bibliographic records up-to-date. You can access your research from any internet browser if you choose to sync. Zotero allows you to co-write a paper, distribute course materials, and build a collaborative bibliography. You can share your Zotero library with as many people as you wish, and it is completely free.
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    BibSonomy Reviews
    BibSonomy makes it easy to create collections of bookmarks and publication posts. Simply insert bookmarks or publications. This can be done even faster using our BibSonomy bookmarklets or browser add-ons. You can also use ISBN, ISSN or DOI to have the insert publication form completed automatically for you. To organize your posts, use tags. Tags can be a powerful tool if you choose them carefully. Learn more about tagging in BibSonomy. BibSonomy allows you to create bibliographies for scientific papers. You can use the tag to search all papers in the bibliography if you create a unique tag for each bibliography. After that, you can export your publication listing in the desired format. BibSonomy supports many formats, including EndNote, Microsoft Word Reference Manager, EndNote and BibTeX.
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    refbase Reviews
    Refbase can import and export references from many formats, including BibTeX and Endnote, RIS and PubMed, ISI Web of Science and CSA Illumina. It can create formatted lists of citations, in HTML, RTF or PDF, or both. It also supports RSS and powerful searching. Clients and search engines can easily access it through its OpenSearch and RRU/W web services. It also supports unAPI and COinS metadata. For a more detailed description, please visit our Feature Highlights page. Here is a list of major feature additions to refbase-0.9.5. The stable version of refbase can be downloaded from the SourceForge Download page. For instructions on how to update or install refbase, please refer to the following. You can download the latest source code from the refbase Subversion repository and install it. We invite you to try refbase at the refbase Demo Database, the latest stable release version, or the refbase Beta Database, the latest development version.
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