
Hey presto – you are ready to create your bibliography.Ĭitation styles for thousands of journals Once you download the Mendeley reference manager, you can install the Word Plugin in 3 clicks. Revolutionizing the way you do research! For individual researchers, teams and groups. Save time managing PDFs, instantly share thoughts on papers with colleagues and automatically back up and sync your files between different computers. Manage your research, showcase your work, connect and collaborate with over five million researchers worldwide. Mendeley Desktop for Mac is a free reference manager and an academic social network. Sandra Meredith 'Critical Review of Referencing Software when used with OSCOLA' (2013) 4 EJLT. Sandra Meredith, one of the authors of OSCOLA has written an extremely useful article which discusses in detail the various pros and cons of the different systems, specifically as they relate to OSCOLA. OSCOLA have provided further information and help on its use with bibliographic software here. Referencing software works best when used from the outset, it will often be impractical to try and convert references you have already found into the software halfway through a piece of work or course of study. Whilst they can save you time, and allow you to store all of your references in one place, they can often be difficult to use, and some will still require you to reformat your references once inserted. They may also be able to search across union catalogues and your institution's electronic resources to find articles and books which may be useful to your research, storing them all in one place with links. Referencing software (or bibliographic software, or reference managers) are computer programmes which allow you to store numerous references and bibliographic data, and then insert said data into word processed documents in a variety of referencing styles.
