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• Reference Services
• October 2006
• Issue: 206

In the News: Free Browser-based Citation Tool Zotero Coming Soon

MLA, APA, Chicago Style - who doesn't fondly remember trying to parse out the exact citation format for some esoteric source. Citation tools like EndNotes, RefWorks, and ProCite have stripped some of the mystique away from the art of building a bibliography, and a team from George Mason University's Center for History and New Media is now building a browser-based citation tool that will be able to pull citations from a web page with a click and store them on a user's computer. The source code will be available to developers and the application will run on any OS that can run Firefox.

Learn more about what Zotero might do in Jared Bernstein's EContent article (available online at http://tinyurl.com/ j8gww), or on the Zotero web page: http://www.zotero.org.