All programs had problems especially with generating the URL and the date of access in the reference to online documents. With regard to the individual types of resources, the lowest number of mistakes was shown by Zotero, while RefWorks had the greatest number of mistakes. The largest number of mistakes for 9 journals was found in references generated by EndNote and in the other 4 journals the largest number of mistakes was detected in RefWorks references. The fewest mistakes were detected in references generated by Zotero for 11 journals and the NLM style, while the second fewest number of mistakes was found in Mendeley. By creating references and citations with Cite This For Me™ tools you’re taking steps to help avoid this.Bibliographical references to online and printed articles, books, contributions to edited books and web resources generated by EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks and Zotero were compared with manually written references according to the citation instructions in 15 biomedical journals and the NLM citation style.

You’ve probably seen headlines in the news and heard stories in school about the negative consequences of plagiarism.

Plagiarism is a word you never want to hear describing your work. In addition to the reasons mentioned above, citing sources in academia provides evidence of your research process and helps you avoid plagiarism. Formal citing done for papers and projects takes this a step further.

It also allows others to follow up if they need more information. We do this because it gives credibility to what we say, but also because it credits the originator of the information. By saying where you got your information, you are casually citing a source.

“, or “I read in XYZ that those two celebrities are dating”, or even “Mom said that you can’t do that”. Have you ever said, “I heard on XYZ News that. You already do it in your everyday life without realising it. Citing isn’t something you usually think about, but it’s important nonetheless.

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