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Bibliographic management software (also called reference or citation management) allows students and researchers to keep a database of references to research sources like books, articles, dissertations, web pages, and much more. Advanced software also allows keeping the full-text of these sources as part of the database.
Once you add a reference to the database, you can search these references, insert the citations in documents like research papers or theses, and format bibliographics using various citation styles like APA, MLA, or Chicago.
There are many bibliographic management packages available; the Virginia Tech Libraries supports EndNote and Zotero.
The university has a site license for the EndNote product and makes it available to all Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students.
Only on campus users, which includes those connecting to the Internet via VPN, can download EndNote directly from the Software Distribution Office site. Once downloaded and installed, check periodically to see if there have been updates.
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