Tutorial: Food Stories

Citation Managers can...

• Prevent losing resources due to expired links 
• Save citations that are either manually entered or collected using a browser extenstion (Zotero) or by uploading citations that were downloaded as a RIS file. 
• Organize citations based on project or topic
• Automatically create bibliographies and in-text citations in accordance to different citation styles like APA or MLA, as well as easily change the format of the citation depending on user's needs
• Store PDFs, annotations, highlights, and notes for long-term use
• Facilitate collaboration with shared collections that sync collaborator's resources and annotations

There are several citation managers to choose from and they each have different features. For an in-depth guide to comparing citation managers, please see the University of Maryland's guide "Citation Managers: Which citation manager is right for me?"

Zotero is free to use and has several useful features such as a browser extension for quick citation collecting and shared libraries for collaboration. See the instructions and documentation for downloading and using Zotero at Zotero.org