If researching and referencing cause you stress or take up a lot of your time, these programmes may be for you.

Using the free referencing tool Zotero to collect a variety of materials that you might want to cite in an essay. Play video
Using the free referencing tool Zotero to collect a variety of materials that you might want to cite in an essay.

Zotero

Referencing your reading in your work demonstrates that you have conducted a thorough and appropriate literature search. Reference management software helps you to record the details of the information you find and to generate lists of citations and a bibliography.

Your librarian can support you with using . 

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

  • Capture referencing data using ISBNs or DOIs
  • Intelligent web browser add-on for digital resources
  • Organise resources into different collections
  • Microsoft Word add-in
  • Generate citations in a huge variety of referencing styles
  • Automatically generate bibliographies
  • Export to EndNote and RefWorks

Help & how to get started:

  • Zotero can be downloaded from the .

More helpful videos:

How to use Weava for research Play video
How to use Weava for research

Weava

Weava is a highlighting tool for websites and PDFs. Once highlighted you can then organise these into folders and sub-folders, along with creating citations automatically for you for help with referencing. Multiple colours allow for full customisation and notes can be added to the highlighted text to remind yourself why it may be useful. 

Help & how to get started:

  • Weava can be downloaded from the .