The Future Agenda of the Reference Management Tools

Kamala Mohanty

Kamala Mohanty National Institute of Technology Tadepalligudam Andrapradesh, India

Abstract

Citation and Reference Management (RM) has always been a crucial part in the study of scholarly publications. The management of these references has mostly been the sole responsibility of the author until now as they collect, maintain and format. There are the tools to assist in this regard, whereas both the commercial and open sources offer varying degrees of support for user specific needs. In the past few years, we witnessed the arrival of a large number of new tools with greatly expanded functionality. Most of the newer reference managers focus on the collaborative aspects of collecting references and writing manuscripts. A number of these newer tools are web-based in order to facilitate this collaboration, and some of them are also available for mobile devices. Many reference managers now have integrated PDF viewers (sometimes with annotation tools) for scholarly papers. This studied the available online reference tools and indicate the future functions of these tools. These tools are expected to play a role in reference linking.

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