If you are into that sort of thing, EndNote is the one, but if you are happy with the out-of-the-box settings (most people are) then Papers is much easier to learn and use. EndNote is good for power users who like to tinker.Ĭonfession: I was a power user and tweaked EndNote’s settings to correct some minor inaccuracies in the way it presented some obscure types of references. Papers would be my first choice, I enjoy using it. I forget how many hundreds of references I used in my thesis, but preparing the reference list only took a few minutes at the end. The benefit of a dedicated reference and citation app is that you insert the citation, it does the formatting when you are done (preferably after you have compiled to Word). Note that both Papers and EndNote will work with Scrivener (and Word, and Pages): I believe that both Zotero and Mendeley struggle with Scrivener, although I don’t have first hand knowledge. Unless you use an obscure referencing system or need to tweak power setting, Papers can now do most of what EndNote can. I actually used it in addition to EndNote because it was so much easier. Papers does cost, but their student discount is substantial and, although US $50 can seem a lot as a student, it more than pays for itself in a very short time. Free and powerful is a good combination for software. One of the reasons I use EndNote, apart from it’s massive flexibility, is that my university has a licence for all staff and students. If so, you may be eligible for a free, or substantially cheaper, copy. The first thing is to check if your university/college has a site licence for a reference manager. There are others, Mendeley, Bibtex, Zotero being the most well known (and, I think, all three are free), but I am no longer familiar enough with them to comment in detail. The easiest to use (well, of the ones I am familiar with) is Papers, the most powerful is EndNote. If so, then my strong advice is to install a reference manager. If you are writing a thesis, then presumably you have at least dozens, and probably hundreds, of references. I have all of my citations in a Word file currently.
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