When you start finding relevant and interesting research publications, you'll want an easy way to store and access your references. That way you can quickly refer back to them and cite them in your own publications. Citation managers help you save, organize, and share citations. Citation managers also allow you to generate lists of references and inline citations automatically.

Ask around and see what your classmates, advisor, and colleagues use. If it's varied or they don't know, we recommend Zotero.

Developed by the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a nonprofit organization, Zotero follows a freemium model. Zotero offers 300 MG of storage space for free and additional storage space for a subscription fee. Zotero allows you to:

• use their web app and desktop app
• store citations and documents
• save references directly from the web with browser plug-ins
• cite as you write with Google Docs plug-in
• tag documents
• share private folders and public folders