A&M-SA Research Guides: Scoping Reviews in the Social Sciences: Citation Management & Other Tools

Citation Management

Citation management software can help you manage the articles/citations/PDFs you gather as you research and can help you easily create properly formatted papers and bibliographies.We have a couple citation management software at A&M-SA:

Free software with cloud-based option (sync between the two). Visit the Zotero website to learn more.
Visit the University Library's Zotero help guide for information on how to get started and configure Zotero

EndNote (Clarivate Analytics) This link opens in a new window
A citation tool available through the library’s subscription to Web of Science where users can create an online library with a maximum of 50,000 references and up to 2GB of attachments. For more information on creating an account and importing citations, please see our EndNote Instructions.
*since this is a limited version, there are some features that are lacking in using this with evidence synthesis such as sharing folders with groups. Please test tool before you adopt to use this

Software for Manageming Reviews

There are several software tools to help you organize and streamline a systematic review. Please note most of of these will require a paid subscription. Please work with your department to cover costs as the library doesn't subscribe to these resources.

Covidence:The most popular tool. is a systematic reviews production tool for title/abstract screening, full-text screening, data abstraction, and quality assessment. Covidence was designed by researchers familiar with the systematic review process in order to make conducting reviews more efficient, though has a health science focus. Cost money to use. It also has a health research focus.
Abstrackr: helps you upload and organize the results of a literature search for a systematic review. It also makes it possible for your team to screen, organize, and manipulate all of your abstracts in one place. Open source and free. Need to create a profile to start.
Other software includes: DistillerSR, EPPI-Reviewer, and Rayyan.