Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, annotate, and share research. It helps you track all your sources and build bibliographies in minutes! It's also collaborative, so if you're working on a project with multiple people you can all save your sources in one place!
Zotero 7 was just released with a new logo.
Check out Zotero's extensive documentation to see how it works!
Citation Management, or Reference management, tools are easy-to-use tools that can help you collect, organize, cite, and share research sources. Examples include Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, RefWorks, and EZbib.
Most Columbia databases allow you to export full citations, and sometimes PDFs, into Citation Management tools, and many citation management tools have web plugins to help capture website information.
Zotero and Mendeley are both free softwares, and EndNote is free for all current Columbia & Barnard students. All require the creation of an account to use, and have both standalone downloadable versions as well as web versions.
Check out the Barnard Library's Guide to Citation Management to compare softwares and learn more.
Annotated bibliographies - here are a couple of good resources on what they are and how to write them:
Annotated Bibliographies - UNC Writing Center - explains what they are and why we make them
The Craft of Research by Here are some citation resources that we use a lot: