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Referencing and Bibliography Management Tools

Feature EndNote JabRef Zotero Mendeley

Academic Humanities, STEM
Best for publishing, LaTeX/BibTeX users social sciences, researchers,
power users open data collaboration

.enl (native), RIS, BibTeX, CSL
File Format RIS, BibTeX, BibTeX (.bib), RIS JSON, RDF, RIS, BibTeX,
Support EndNote XML
XML Zotero RDF

Good
PDF Metadata Excellent Limited/manual Very Good (DOI- (automatic
Extraction (automatic) based)
with DOI)

Built-in PDF Built-in PDF Built-in PDF
Annotation & viewer with No internal PDF viewer reader + reader +
PDF Viewer
annotation highlighting annotation

7,000+ 10,000+ CSL 8,000+ CSL
Citation Styles 2,000+ (via CSL)
(editable) styles styles

Word MS Word, LaTeX editors (Overleaf, MS Word, MS Word,
Processor Apple Pages, TeXstudio) LibreOffice, LibreOffice
Integration LaTeX Google Docs

Local + Local + Zotero Local +
Data Storage optional Local (manual cloud sync cloud (300 MB Mendeley cloud
cloud possible) free) (2 GB free)

Yes (groups, Folders + Tags +
Grouping & smart Limited (manual sorting) Smart Folders + Tags
Tagging
groups) Collections

Share Mendeley
libraries via Zotero Groups Groups (limit
Collaboration Not built-in
EndNote (public/private) on free
Web account)