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Originally Posted by catsknit
Honestly, I use Zotero for writing papers for my masters and it is really easy to use, and it's free.
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I ended up using Calibre as my citation manager, because both Calibre and Zotero require me to add all of the metadata needed to correctly format citations, and since I was using Calibre as my digital library, I didn't see the point of doing that work, twice.
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Or you can go into zotero and use the magic wand button and enter the DOI and it will pull it in that way.
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If one starts out with Zotero, or a citation manager that can be imported by Zotero, and consistently adds potential references to it, it works fairly well.
When one has to manually add every citation to it, and all of the related metadata, especially when one already has a core list with a couple of thousand citations, migration becomes a perilous task, made even more daunting by maintenance issues.
About half the material I cite in my non-fiction, lacks DOIs, ISBNs, or ISSNs.