Reference managers

Citation tools (also called bibliographic management tools or citation managers) help scholars to create and manage their lists of references for research projects. Most tools are designed to organize citations into specific formats for the preparation of manuscripts and bibliographies.

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

Video and tutorials

Postgraduate Student of Zaporizhzhya National University created a plugin for designing a bibliography in Mendeley in Ukrainian DSTU 8302:2015.

Action Algorithm:
1) Download Mendeley https://www.mendeley.com
2) Bookmark View – Citation styles – More Styles
3) Open the Get more Styles and in line Download style insert the link to the plugin: http://16bitfamily.com/csl/dstu-gost-8302-2015.csl

The plug-in is free, it is very easy to automatically convert a bibliography from the style of DSTU to any international citation style and vice versa.

EndNote the paid bibliographic information management system used to manage links and bibliographies and allows you to format them according to numerous citation standards. The company-developer – Clarivate Analytics (formerly known as Thomson Reuters). For the SumDU community, EndNote is free, because the university has access to Web of Science.

Educational videos

Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials.

Training materials