Citationsy Alternatives

Qiqqa

Qiqqa is a free research and reference manager. Search for, read and annotate your PDFs. Then review your work, write up and create bibliographies instantly. Superb reference and document management. Import PDFs into separate libraries. Automatic OCR and tag extraction. Qiqqa helps you populate missing metadata for millions of research papers. Full-text search, duplicate paper detection, inbound and outbound links, and much more.

Features:

• PDF annotation
• Bib Tex Sniffer
• Full text search
• Brainstorming
• Citations
• Cloud sync
• Cross-references
• Automatic Tagging
• Autotagging
• Bibliography generator
• Brainstorm mode
• Citation detection
• Content analysis
• Document annotations
• File management
• File Searching
• Library
• Library section
• Metadata Search
• PDF OCR
• Plaguarism detection
• Portable
• Qualitative Data Analysis
• Real time collaboration
• Social network
• Structured data
• Text search feature
• Theme mapping
• Optimized for Touch screen

Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox/Chrome extension or standalone program to help you collect, organize, manage, search and cite your research sources directly in your favourite word processor, with 300 MB free online storage.

Features:

• Browser integration
• Cross-references
• Export to LaTeX
• Knowledge Management
• Legacy Firefox Addon
• Cloud Storage
• Export to CSV
• Firefox Extensions
• Importing from webpages
• LibreOffice Integration
• Compatible with Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Office integration
• Multiple languages
• Save web page for offline use
• Sync between devices
• Support for WebDAV

Mendeley Reference Manager

Mendeley helps manage and share academic knowledge: Mendeley Desktop is free academic software (Windows, Mac, Linux) for organizing and sharing research papers and generating bibliographies with 1GB of free online storage to automatically back up and synchronize your library across desktop, web and mobile. Mendeley Web is a free research network which lets you manage research papers online, discover trends and connect to like-minded academics.

Features:

• Word integration
• Bibliography generator
• Browser integration
• LibreOffice Integration
• Microsoft Office integration
• PDF annotation
• Real time collaboration
• Social network

Citavi

A handy, intuitive reference-managing tool. Citavi researches in over 4800 databases and catalogs, organizes and structures your literature, references, quotes and idea collections and assists you with your documentation or publication. Currently available in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Polish.

Features:

• Information gathering
• Intuitive Nodes
• Knowledge base
• Knowledge Management
• Book manager
• Task Management

EndNote

Reference management software with support for collaboration, remote access, and automation.

BibSonomy

BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature (BibTex format). When discovering a bookmark or a publication on the web, you can store it on our server. You can add tags to your post to retrieve it more easily. This is very similar to the bookmarks/favorites that you store within your browser. The advantage of BibSonomy is that you can access your data from whereever you are.

Features:

• Bookmarks
• Data Mining
• Knowledge Management
• Real time collaboration
• Tagging

wizdom.ai

wizdom.ai (formerly colwiz) is a free and comprehensive research management software for researchers, academics and students. With the wizdom.ai android app, you can search, add and manage publications in your wizdom.ai library on the go. Sync instantly across wizdom.

Features:

• Bibliography generator
• Citations
• Library

EasyBib

Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA. Easybib truly makes the life of a student work smarter and smoother, providing an intuitive means to cite sources in any line of writing. Gathers and manages multiple projects and bibliography with integrated exportation and formatting of the dreaded Work Cited page in any written work.

Features:

• Bibliography generator
• Browser integration
• Citations

Weava

Weava is a collaborative workplace for research offering an easy way to highlight, organize and collaborate on your research articles.

Features:

• Bibliography generator
• Citations
• PDF annotation
• Text Highlighting

RefWorks

RefWorks - an online research management, writing and collaboration tool - is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. If you need to manage information for any reason -- whether it be for writing, research or collaboration -- RefWorks is the perfect tool. Use the tutorials and information resources on this site to work smarter with RefWorks!