Biological Sciences

Citation tools allow you to save and organize your research. They also let you create formatted bibliographies.

Downloadable as a standalone program from OIT, EndNote is a powerful citation tool for organizing your research and creating formatted citations. In addition to the standalone option, you can create an EndNote Web account.

• Get EndNote | Create an EndNote Web account
• Overview of features
• EndNote training & support
• Add Duke Libraries to your Find Full Text feature (to fetch pdfs):
  1. Get to your preferences by going to Edit > Preferences
  2. Choose Find Full Text
  3. Make sure OpenURL is checked and enter “https://getitatduke.library.duke.edu” into the OpenURL Path field
  4. Enter “https://proxy.lib.duke.edu/login” into the Authenticate URL
  5. Click OK

Downloadable as a free standalone program and browser extension, Zotero is designed to store content in any format, including PDFs, images, audio and video files, and snapshots of web pages.

• Download and register
• Zotero support
• Zotero quick start guide

A free web-based PDF and reference manager, with optional downloadable program. Read, annotate, organize, and collaborate on research projects with others.  

• Register and download
• Mendeley help guides