Citation Management

Faculty Liaison Program

EndNote & RefWorks/RefShare

Both RefWorks and EndNote will help you manage your citations and help you write and format your paper. Which one you use will depend on the scale of your project and the amount of collaboration involved. EndNote allows greater flexibility, has more sophisticated writing tools and has more options for working with images. EndNote users now have access to a stripped down, web-based version called EndNote Web that works in conjunction with the desktop version.

RefWorks is easy to use, is available anywhere through the Web, and is perfect for collaborative projects. RefWorks users have access to RefShare, a feature which enables you to open your RefWorks folders to other users for instruction or collaboration. RefShare is not limited to RefWorks account holders, nor does it require any additional plug-ins. Anyone can share a folder and provide colleagues or classmates access to their citations.

Which One Is for Me? Basic Features:

	EndNote	RefWorks
Ease of use	Moderate learning curve, particularly if you wish to take advantage of more advanced features such as working with images.	Minimal learning curve.
Cost	Individual purchase by user. UCSF personnel can purchase a discounted version from the UCSF Technology Store.	Free to current UCSF faculty, students and staff.
Access	Endnote must be installed on your computer. However, users have access to a stripped down online version called EndNote Web.	Web-based, making it fully "portable." You can however work offline.
Works within Microsoft Word to create formatted bibliographies, in-text citations, and footnotes.	Yes. When you install EndNote it automatically installs Cite-While-You-Write that lets you use EndNote within your Word documents.	Yes. From within RefWorks you download and install Write-n-Cite that lets you use RefWorks within your Word documents.