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How to Conduct a Literature Review (Health Sciences)

What is Reference Management?

Reference management is when you use specific tools to help you organize the references you find during a lit review search. You can save your references in Microsoft Word itself, and then get help with formatting the citations. The tools listed below can also be used to organize your references.

Popular Reference Managers

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Mendeley is both a reference manager and an academic social network.  A free account will provide you with 2GB of online storage; additional storage may be purchased for your account.  All you ever wanted to know about Mendeley can be found with their helpful online guides or by watching the Mendeley training videos.

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Zotero was developed initially at George Mason University and has gained popularity as a flexible reference manager.   All the information for learning Zotero is provided through their online documentation or their screencast tutorials.