{"id":83,"date":"2024-07-16T10:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T09:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2024-07-16T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T09:01:57","slug":"using-reference-management-software","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/reference-management\/using-reference-management-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Using reference management software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reference management tools allow you to save and sort your references, as well as insert citations and bibliographies into your assignments.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend using either\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/software\/mendeley\">Mendeley<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/software\/zotero\">Zotero<\/a> as reference management tools. Both are free and offer similar services that can be used across varied PCs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch our quick 5 minute guides to using reference management tools:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qpRqo6slIuc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IQPnSgWYgx0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>You can get more help with setting up on each app.<\/p>\n<p>If you are using LaTex to write up assignments then <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-library-guide\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=193&amp;action=edit\">check out our guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference management tools allow you to save and sort your references, as well as insert citations and bibliographies into your assignments. We recommend using either\u00a0Mendeley\u00a0or\u00a0Zotero &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/reference-management\/using-reference-management-software\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56317,"featured_media":0,"parent":81,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/computing-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}