Reference Manager 10.0

Rating:
Summary: An Academic's Dream
Review: Reference Manager is a huge time saver for students as well as professors. Right out of the box, it is very intuitive to figure out how to use this program to insert citations into papers and format your references. A toolbar in Microsoft Word makes it easy to insert citations while you write either individually or en masse. Click, click, click. When you finish the text, you can choose the reference format you need. Get rejected from one journal? You just click a few buttons to reformat your in-text citations and reference list rather than spend hours deleting periods from authors' names.

Directly exporting references from search engines is very handy, too. This way you have a well-organized database with full reference information that you can keep coming back. This is not always a perfect process, but comes close enough.

Another option for building a reference database is to tell Reference Manager what sort of references you need, but I don't recommend this method. It is easier to work with familiar search engines that are formatted for your field than try to go through an unwieldy middle-man.

All around an excellent product to help you write research papers and to establish a personalized electronic library for yourself.

Rating:
Summary: An Academic's Dream
Review: Reference Manager is a huge time saver for students as well as professors. Right out of the box, it is very intuitive to figure out how to use this program to insert citations into papers and format your references. A toolbar in Microsoft Word makes it easy to insert citations while you write either individually or en masse. Click, click, click. When you finish the text, you can choose the reference format you need. Get rejected from one journal? You just click a few buttons to reformat your in-text citations and reference list rather than spend hours deleting periods from authors' names.

Directly exporting references from search engines is very handy, too. This way you have a well-organized database with full reference information that you can keep coming back. This is not always a perfect process, but comes close enough.

Another option for building a reference database is to tell Reference Manager what sort of references you need, but I don't recommend this method. It is easier to work with familiar search engines that are formatted for your field than try to go through an unwieldy middle-man.

All around an excellent product to help you write research papers and to establish a personalized electronic library for yourself.