1. Use the bibliographic management tools Zotero and Mendeley

There are a large number of bibliographic management tools, including free, open-source and proprietary tools, of which the following are a few examples:

• Zotero ;

• Mendeley ;

• Bibsonomy ;

• CiteUlike .

Zotero and Mendeley , which combine local use with work on an online platform, are widely used in research and documentation. They combine functions for building individual reference libraries with social networking options: