Best citation software

[hiveologic]

Hello Forum,

I am currently working with endnote, but am rather fed up with it. I find it very annoying that I can not access document folders, and have to guess my way through the library folders if i want to find any of my PDFs again. Further more deleting a reference will NOT delete the actual PDF in the library. So while being quite usefull for finding references and including them into word, I find I have no control over my actual library and little to no chance to pass on a selection of files to colleagues.

I am looking for a software that

- allows me easy access to my actually stored files

- does sort my files according to author/title or any other useful format (endnote simply uses the filename, effectively meaning I need to manually rename ANY pdf I download)

- works well with MS word

- allows importing endnote citations and/or libraries (since that seems to be the standard format on scientific webpages)

Annotation function over program borders would be useful as well.

I have recently been using calibre to manage downloaded ebooks, and while not adaptable for citations, have to say that this free(!!!) software offers all these options, while endnote costs a fair bit while being as practical as a dead cat.

Cheers

Edited June 6, 2012 by hiveologic

[CharonY]

For free you may want to try out zotero or mendeley.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I use Papers for organizing all of my papers. It provides full search and sorting features, so you can keep different collections of papers for different purposes.