i used manual referencing, in case of case report or original article of less than 30 references, it gives me more in depth knowledge in the articles so i will be more alert and focus of what i am writing in introduction and discussion part. i used and help me in discussion part.

I use EndNote, because it was the very first software I started with managing references after practicing manual organizing of references for a few years. Also, I did not see any significant reason for changing the tool. However, you have to buy the software in order to access, it is obviously not an advantage. In contrast, Mendeley is a free software one could use for the same purpose, but I have no experience with Mendeley to compare these two.

I prefer "Mendeley" for its ease of use.

Dilraj Kaur

I prefer "Endnotes".

Because it has more formats, you can also add the required format from the Endnotes website or the style journal prepared by Endnotes.

  You can even easily edit custom formats from existing formats even if needed.

In my view, EndNote is the best reference management software.

Mendeley

Elhadi Mohieldin Awooda That's great. It requires a lot of patience and one should be careful. But does it work for a large number of references? and what about errors?

Looking forward to your response.

Manjula Wijewickrema Thanks for your response. I personally use Mendleye and have never tried "Endnote". Thus we both in the same condition.

Reza Norouzi and Amir Ghaderi Thank you for your response.

Julian Hirt Thank you for your response. I didn't know about"Citavi". Will surely try.

I prefer, Mendeley

Endnote

Hi manual references is real challenge. it is like using your mind instead of calculator. if you use calculator you can not make simple mathematical calculation, of example 9x6-4. i think your brain will develop a sense of focus, alert and concentration, but errors and mistakes can not be over comes and more and more revision ,,, i like and i used to. thanks Dilraj Kaur

Julian Hirt , I am thankful to you for your information. Is this available in India and also is it available in the English language?

Elhadi Mohieldin Awooda That's great, challenges make the brain strong. I agree with your point. We should be focussed and practice more and more. Thanks for your opinion.

Julian Hirt that's sound great. Thanks a lot.

Thank you Julian Hirt .

I prefer mendeley for reference management.

Thank you Gulbir Singh

I prefer manual referencing which is more accurate and makes me remember the citation for a long time.

Mostly, software-based referencing sometimes provides errors which become unrepairable in crunch moments.

Dear Dilraj, could I take your question to a limit and reformulate it as follows. Is possible in XXI century to conduct a research, which is not based on previous knowledge? Original enginering articles without any reference still appeared in 1960th. So, what drives research is an idea. Yes, it can have been expressed by somebody else in the past. This means that you have many ways to go. For example, you can take an old idea and realize it successfully, as Elon Mask. Competition in industry requires a lot of research. However, industry may (and should) hide most important sources. So, for what reference tools are needed? To multiply academic garbige or on the contrary, to reduce the rate of its multiplying?

Arunava Poddar thank you.

Endnote.

The format of references is different for each journal, or conferece. Endnote provides adequate template file and convinience transformation. Actually, my first reference manager is Mendeley, with limited support in Chinese formation.

Thanks Xing Lv for the response.

I prefer mendeley.

Definitely MENDELEY

Thanks Rubén Abraham Domínguez-Pérez for the response.

Thanks Subhojit Kadia for your response.

Mendeley is a useful tool. However, it has to be checked to correct any error.

Mendeley desktop is suitable

I personally use Zotero.

Zotero.

Endnote