Health Sciences Article Searching- How To

The Writer's Center is a fantastic resource for help writing and organizing your paper. The Writer's Center is open and online. Just make an appointment with them and they will help you virtually or in person.

What is a citation manager? A citation manager helps you organize the resources that you have found into one place. With a citation manager you can:

• import citation information from databases and other sources, such as webpages
• organize your citations and pdfs to make them easier to find again
• save .pdfs alongside their citation information
• format your citations in a particular style and incorporate those citations easily in your paper
• take notes and include them alongside citations

Mendeley

Mendeley is free citation management system, but it also includes social networking features. It is sponsored by Elsevier, one of the largest scientific publishing companies in the world. This means that it's designed for researchers to discover and download journal articles and resources, organize them, read and annotate PDFs, create in-text references and bibliographies, and collaborate with other researchers. It also has tools to grab the citations off webpages and to use in Word to put your citation information the paper you're writing. 

***This citation manager DOES work well when on MACs