Knowledge Guides: Citation Management Tools: Home

Introduction

While EndNote is available to our users with a WakeHealth email and is supported by Carpenter Library, there are other options that are free.

Mendeley and Zotero are both web-based free bibliographic citation managers.

The three programs are used to:

gather citations from several sources including databases,
store them online,
organize them in collections,
share them in online groups, and
place them in Word documents as in-text citations and bibliographies.

Citation Management Comparisons

Compare	EndNote 21	Mendeley	Zotero
Version details	Windows and Mac users
Cost	Free for Wakeheatlh emails	Free	Free
Integrate with MS Word	Cite While You Write plugin
Share Library	share with up to 1000 other users unlimited shared to you
Bibliographic Output Styles	7000+
File format accepted from databases	650+ desktop, RIS for EndNote Web

For a complete list to compare current EndNote21, desktop, web, and basic versions, check out this pdf by Clarivate:
https://endnote.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/EndNote-21-web-Comparison_Factsheet_2023-09-29T14_35_48.pdf

Or this one from Research Software: Compare EndNote versions
https://researchsoftware.com/software/bibliography/endnote/compare-endnote-versions

To compare Endnote X9, 20, and 21 versions, check out this Clarivate comparison chart :
https://clarivate.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=72491317