Citation managers such as EndNote Basic (aka EndNote Online), EndNote Desktop, Zotero, and Mendeley are tools for managing your citations. Among other things, citation managers can help you to:
This guide includes pages with information on how to install and use EndNote Basic, EndNote 2025, EndNote 21, EndNote 20, Zotero, and Mendeley.
The "best" citation manager will depend on the functions you're looking for in a citation manager.
Each citation manager shares some of the same, basic functions, including, among other things, the ability to:
For additional information about EndNote Basic, EndNote desktop, Zotero, and Mendeley's available functions and differences, you reach out to Ebling Library's Citation Management Coordinator, Paije Wilson.
Important Note: If you are co-writing a paper as a team (i.e., more than one person will be adding citations to a single document), it is preferable that all team members use the same citation manager for the project.
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If you have a UW Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) owned device, you can get EndNote 2025 installed by your departmental IT staff. Endnote 2025 software is provided under SMPH licensing to be installed on SMPH owned devices only.
For more information on getting Endnote 2025 software installed on an SMPH owned device, contact your Departmental IT staff.
Note that this license ONLY applies to SMPH owned devices. It does NOT apply to personal devices, or any other devices that aren't owned by SMPH.
