Research Guides: HISTORY 464: American Foreign Relations, 1941-: Managing Research Materials

Citation Management

Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Plugins for Word and Google Docs help you quickly insert footnotes or in-text citations.
EndNote Basic
Use EndNote Web to create a personal database of references to articles, books and other research sources - create an account to begin. You must be on campus or connected to the campus network through VPN to create an account.You must also connect to the campus computer network either in-person or through VPN every 12 months to renew the cookie that authorizes your access to EndNote Web.
Mendeley
With Mendeley Reference Manager, you can organize and search your personal library, annotate documents and cite as you write. Create a free account to begin.

For more detailed assistance with these tools, check out this Citation Manager Research Guide.

File Backups

There are few worse feelings than losing hours and hours of work. Back up your files!!! DropBox and Google Drive are great free options, but a USB and periodical print copies are a good idea, too.