PowerNotes: an easy-to-use, minimally intrusive Chrome extension for web annotation and citation management. Ideal for taking quick or extensive annotations on texts you read online while the platform automatically stores your highlights, notes, and links to the sources, allowing you to organize them into different topics and different projects. You can export an outline of your annotations to a Word document. FREE/Paid
Citation Management
Citation Style Guides: Some Resources
Here are some guides to help you properly cite your sources:
NYU Libraries’ Citation Style Guide
NYU Libraries’ How to Cite Data & Statistics
The Purdue Online Writing Lab’s comprehensive MLA Style Guide (aka The OWL at Purdue)
KnightCite
KnightCite: a free and simple online citation tool from Hekman Library at Calvin College; ideal for citing only a few sources. Free.
RefWorks
RefWorks: ProQuest’s powerful web-based citation management tool with multi-platform integration and online storage of your libraries. Offers CWYW (Cite While You Write) plug-in for Microsoft Word and single-click citation exporting options from most library databases. FREE for the NYU community.
Zotero
Zotero:citation management tool available as a web page, a Firefox Web extension or as a stand-alone desktop application. Zotero senses and reads content from your web browser, enabling you to add references to your personal library with a single click. Great option for creating collaborative reference libraries, and sharing them online. CWYW plug-ins for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. Zotpress plug-in for in-text citation and bibliographic reference in wordpress sites (supported by NYU WebPublishing). FREE. Check out our Zotero/Zotpress tutorial.
Mendeley
Mendeley: reference manager and PDF organizer. CWYW (Cite while You Write) plug-in available for Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and BibTex. Web-based and downloadable software. FREE.