Meg, A couple of months ago, somebody asked the same question on eco-log. (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17423.html)
Here's a summary of responses that they received. Good luck finding a program! *** I am also looking for similar software, and found this page on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software *** I like Bibdesk (http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/) but it only works with Macs. I also use LaTeX, which BibDesk is designed for. *** I like zotero, see www.zotero.org I have had great luck with Zotero (www.Zotero.org) and it integrates into Word, OpenOffice and web browsers. Good luck and hope that helps. I use Zotero and highly recommend it. I stopped using EndNote as soon as this came out. The best part is that if the citation output format does not exist for a journal you are submitting to, you can modify and existing one easily as they are in an XML format. In addition, people post ones they create to the Zotero website all the time. I especially like the interface to Firefox. *** Try: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ I've used it on linux and mac systems. Works great. *** Mendeley. It's great! ( http://www.mendeley.com/ ). It's a free program, although they plan on transitioning to a paid format some time in the future. However, my understanding is that the program itself will always be free; you will in future be able to pay for storage space online if you want to keep the pdfs from your library on their servers. Mendeley is great, free, and easy to use: it's an itunes-like reference manager that I prefer to EndNote. www.mendeley.com I use Mendeley. It is still a little glitchy and does crash a bit. But I like what it does and I hope it will only improve *** As a linux user I am all about the freeware :). I've never tried it but JabRef comes with the recommendation of some Ubuntu forum users. You can find it here: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ I usually use JabRef, which provides similar functionalities to commercial software. However, it is not very user-friendly and it is not linkable to Microsoft applications. It works best with Latex. *** If you are familiar with the OpenOffice (free) alternative to Microsoft's Office suite (http://www.openoffice.org/), you might try looking into CiteProc (http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/citeproc/index.html). Although I haven't tried it yet, I have been meaning to. It looks like it will do all the things EndNote or RefWorks would, but it's free, open-source software. I use OpenOffice and have been very pleased with On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Meg Krawchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. I'm looking for suggestions for a good, freeware citation > manager as an alternative to EndNote and other commercial software. > I've been dabbling with Mendeley but have found it to be > unsatisfactory in its current incarnation (e.g., even the citation > style for big journals like Nature seems to be incorrect with no > opportunity to edit/change). > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Meg. > -- > ------------------------------------------------ > Meg Krawchuk, Ph.D. > Post-doctoral Research Fellow > Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management > 335 Mulford Hall > University of California, Berkeley > office phone: 510.642.9499 > > web: http://nature.berkeley.edu/~megk/ > > mailing address: > 130 Mulford Hall MC #3114 > University of California, Berkeley > Berkeley, California 94720 > U.S.A. >
