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Citing Your Work

Learn how to cite your work, and discover tool to help you write and cite most efficiently.

Citation Tools

About Citation Tools

Citations tools streamline the research and writing process by collecting and organizing citations in a single place on your desktop and/or in a cloud application. Many of these tools also integrate with word processing programs, like Microsoft Word, to automatically create and format references and bibliographies.   

Software Package
EndNote EndNote is a reference management software package from Clarivate (Web of Science). It allows researchers to import reference data to one place and access them from their desktop or online. It also installs a Microsoft Word plug-in that automatically creates in-text citations and bibliographies for documents.

MD Anderson employees can download EndNote X9 from the institution's Software Center.  

Free Online Tools
Zotero Zotero is an easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. It includes a browser extension that lets you capture references from the Web. It also instantly creates references and bibliographies directly inside Word and Google Docs.  
Mendeley Mendeley Reference Manager is a web and desktop application from Elsevier. You can build a personal Mendeley library to organize, search and read all your references. You can also insert references and bibliographies into documents using the citation add-in for Microsoft Word.