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help please with saving references

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Hi moneysavers!! Hoping smeobody can he,p me here as it's always worked in the past.

I am currently undertaking a masters and cannot get to grips with saving references to the uni's Reworks account which is free as at least 50% oof the time I can't login thru the uni website due to probls!!

My servisor used Endote and suggested i use that but it's expensive. I have a 30 day trial but not sure if it's worth buying.

Someone on here must have been there and done that so hoping you can help!!

I know some people use google docs or similar.

i just need to save my references in one easily accessible place and also save the documents too. Not sure if this can be in one place.

My undergraduate degree was more easily manageable through word!! But this social studies stuff need oodles of references and saving load of info

Thanks anyway!!

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  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    I'm afraid I never got on with reference systems and simply wrote my own references and saved them in Word documents. I still do this 5 years later for references in academic papers and reports that I write.
  • Do you mean Refworks? I've never even looked at that and I'm in 3rd year undergraduate. I use Smile to know how to format my references (MHRA method) but I only do that once I've actually used on in an essay. Up until then its just an author, basic title and handwritten quotes from books. This is how I'll continue to work during my masters too.
  • surfsister
    surfsister Posts: 7,527 Forumite
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    thanks funnily enough that's just what the library chappie said - just copy and paste into a word document as any other method wastes so much time! lol! ie refworks hardly works!!
  • surfsister
    surfsister Posts: 7,527 Forumite
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    Do you mean Refworks? I've never even looked at that and I'm in 3rd year undergraduate. I use Smile to know how to format my references (MHRA method) but I only do that once I've actually used on in an essay. Up until then its just an author, basic title and handwritten quotes from books. This is how I'll continue to work during my masters too.

    yes refworks!
  • Voyager2002
    Voyager2002 Posts: 16,218 Forumite
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    Well, Endnote works pretty well. Most universities have a site license for it, and that could be a good solution. Otherwise you could pick up a copy of an old version of it from Ebay at a bargain price.

    If you want a FREE reference manager then check out Zotero: it does much less than Endnote, but what it does do it does well.

    Having said that, I simply used a large Excel spreadsheet for my PhD: I would imagine that a table in Word would work just as well.
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