Citation Machine

[ma-skis.com]

Trying to find a rock-solid citation machine that does APA for my wife, any of you university guys use one on a consistent bais you can recommend?

[GreenLantern]

Download Mendeley and put all of your PDF's in there, she is a great time saver.

http://www.mendeley.com/

We use it because of the group feature, being able to share papers among the entire department... might not be totally what you are looking for.. but worth checking out.

[Ashartus]

By citation machine do you mean bibliographical software? I used to use Reference Manager, which worked reasonably well, and have also used Endnote, but these days mostly use Zotero (which is free and can do quite a bit of stuff).

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I can't begin to express how much I loathe citations.

Ok I get it, you want to see where I got my ideas/information from. That makes sense. But why do I have to put the source information in a specific, bizarre, erratic, irrational structure? Oh and Heaven forbid I have a comma accidentally italicized!

[Kybosh]

Endnote is kind of a pain, but in my experience, is the best of the bunch.

[REDVAN]

Referencing others is the main reason I didn't do too well on my senior thesis...

Not because I didn't do the reading and research, not because I didn't write my own unique thesis. But because I was too lazy to quote everything, so I wrote a really short thesis of my own research, basically ignoring all the pre-requisite material that people had studied... instructor was not impressed. I still don't agree with her saying that I needed a larger intro/background section- anyone who would read my paper (if she eventually spruced it up and published it) was going to be well versed in the topic, so why do I need to re-hash their findings again and again?

Meh.

Made me realize that grad school is probably not for me. I'm not that big of a BSer.

[Flames Fan, Ph.D.]

I use Papers. It's Apple only but organizes your PDFs and does references like Mendeley.

[Rathji]

The last time I did a major paper, there was a firefox plugin that would pull the info from whatever you had - most of mine were journal articles that I downloaded from online repositories, and import it into Word.


It is called Zotero