CITATION & CONTENT MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Citation is an act of giving credit by an individual author or group of authors who quote a particular published statement of an author in their literature. To cite the statements in text and in bibliography, there are several citation styles available in the world. The citation styles play a major role in shaping the academically published contents. The citation styles provide a platform for all academicians to follow certain accepted formats or styles to draft their contents and publish their literature according to some standards. The different types of citation styles are given below:

1. American Psychological Association - APA Style(6th Edition), https://blog.apastyle.org/
2. Chicago Style (17th Edition), https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
3. Modern Language Association - MLA Style (8th Edition), https://style.mla.org/
4. Turabian Style (8th Edition) https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/turabian/citation-guide.html
5. Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE Style https://www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecitationref.pdf

In an academic environment, technical writing for different purposes is a common practice. Each drafted piece of content, whether it is a journal article, thesis or dissertation, conference papers, research proposals, abstract, paper presentation, edited papers, or chapters in an edited book, requires proper citation. If authors forget to cite the original source, then it will lead to plagiarism. By adopting any one style of research, scholars of this university can cite their sources in text and references in bibliography to have a quality benchmark in understanding the above methods.

In modern day technology-driven world many citation management softwares have been released to aid the authors in citing the original source according to a specific citation style. This way the authors are avoiding the plagiarism threat and also achieving a systematic approach in listing the sources cited for their specific work. This page is dedicated to brief about the tools, softwares, techniques used by the academicians in various universities around the world. Some of the widely used citation managers are listed below:

• EndNote
• Mendeley
• Zotero

The students, research scholars, and faculty working in TNPESU may use the citation management software to create and track references, or citations, and to create bibliographies or reference lists formatted in the style appropriate to that discipline, such as APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian. Citation managers allow users to import resource records directly from academic databases such as Sport Discuss, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Academic Search Premier, JSTOR, Web of Science, and most others. You may organize your records into folders and groups and add notes and other metadata, such as abstracts, keywords, and often documents themselves (pdfs), to enhance and improve the efficiency of your research. The citation managers are indispensable for serious academic research, allowing users to keep organized records of the sources they find and include in their research.

Purpose of using a citation manager

• Organize your references according to your needs.
• Eliminate duplicate citations.
• Create bibliographies and references directly from searches.
• Create your own critical abstracts and notes.
• Reuse or repurpose citations throughout your academic career.
• Embed footnotes/endnotes directly within your text editors.
• Currently, no citation manager handles legal citation formats.

Which Citation Management Tool Should I Use?

Each citation management tool has its own unique characteristics, and the tool that will be best for you will depend on your research and writing style and preferences, the types of sources you usually cite, and where and how you do your research.

You can use this comparison chart to decide which citation management tool to try:

CITATIONS AND REFERENCES

Fundamental to the understanding of referencing is the structure of a citation and a reference. A sound knowledge of this is compulsory before any Citation Management System (CMS) is used. A commonly held misconception is that a CMS will "do all of the work for you".

CITATION

A citation usually consists of an "in text" representation of an Information Source (book, book chapter, journal article, etc.) used within a body of text such as an essay. The way a citation will appear (e.g: Smith, 2015) depends directly on the type of Referencing Style you are using e.g. APA

REFERENCES

These are a complete collection of information sources cited within your essay or document. These will usually take the form of a reference list at the end of the document or essay. The way this list appears depends on the Referencing Style you are using.

ELEMENTS OF A CITATION/REFERENCE

All citations and references, regardless of source (book or journal article) or type (print or electronic) are comprised of various parts. At minimum, these parts will be:

Author(s), Title and Year of publication.

The sort of information required in your citation and reference will also heavily depend on the Referencing Style (APA, Harvard, etc.) you are using.

ENDNOTE

Endnote is a software tool developed to manage the references collected for particular research. Endnote is modern day’s reference manager. EndNote moves you through the research process as you search, organize, write, publish, and share. EndNote basic gives you the tools for learning how to do research, cite sources, write term papers, and even match your manuscript to a scientific journal.

The software can be downloaded using the

URL: https://endnote.com/downloads/

MENDELEY

Mendeley is a desktop and web program developed and introduced by Elsevier for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online. It also provides Mendeley for Android and iOS, with Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers.

The software can be downloaded using the

URL: https://www.mendeley.com/download-reference-manager/windows

ZOTERO

Zotero is another reference management tool which will support the research.

The software can be downloaded using the

URL: https://www.zotero.org/download/