Reference management

As those who dedicate many hours of their working time to write scientific articles and book chapters, an adequate organization of references and documents may result in significant time savings.

Many years ago the first applications came out for not only organizing references, but for introducing them automatically in the final list with the correct formatting. Today, the functions and possibilities of these applications render them all but indispensable for researchers and academics.

Overlapping of these applications' functions with those of other tools is ever increasing, for instance with those more specifically designed to manage and share references and documents, and it would not be too adventurous to think that, sooner than later (if not already), they can be considered as belonging to a same category of tools for academic work.

However a slight nuance still exists: tools shown in this section are more centered on organizing, storing and exporting and importing references.

Other functions such as importing and organizing documents in formats such as PDF, and especially the ability to share document and reference lists with peers and groups are still in their infancy.