There are a lot of comparisons of commercial and non-commercial reference management software available on the web. We recommend the following tables created by librarians:
To decide which one of the many reference management systems to use, first aks yourself the following questions:
Here are the dates for the upcoming online workshops on bibliographic management systems:
All workshops begin at 10:30 am and last 90 minutes.
Attendance is free of charge for staff and guests of the Max Planck Society, but online registration is required.
The online workshops are offered by the Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society. Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html
The IVS-BM online workshops will focus on some bibliographic management systems in April:
All workshops begin at 10:30 am and last 90 minutes.
Attendance is free of charge for staff and guests of the Max Planck Society, but online registration is required.
The online workshops are offered by the Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society. Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html
A new series of online workshops has started. The interactive workshops focus on some popular bibliographic management systems:
All workshops begin at 10:30 am and last 90 minutes.
Attendance is free of charge for staff and guests of the Max Planck Society, but online registration is required.
The online workshops are offered by the Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society. Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html
The bibliographic management systems Mendeley, Zotero and Papers use CSL, the open source citation style standard, that allows users of different systems to exchange their citation styles.
More than 2.800 citation styles can be downloaded from the Zotero repository. Until now knowledge of XML syntax was required to customize the styles. The new WYSIWYG citation style editor makes it easier for anyone to edit or create new citation styles.
More about the CLS editor at Mendeley Blog or see
User guide for the CSL Editor
Using the Citation Style Editor with Mendeley Desktop