I’m so old that the last time I wrote a research paper, it was on a word processor with no Internet connection or spell check.

Given such constraints, I can’t fathom the concept of waiting until the end to add all the references. If I didn’t do it as I went, I’d have surely died.

I should add that we always read each other’s papers before submission to get a second set of eyes for errors, misspellings, and grammatical quagmires. It was mutually beneficial as the reviewing made us all better. Is that still a common practice?

I write monstrous documents (hundreds of pages). Zotero is all I use. It’s ridiculously simple and you CAN SHARE REFERENCE WITH OTHER PEOPLE SO THEY DONT HAVE TO ENTER THEM.

This might not seem like a big deal, but I can get junior to prep a doc and share reference, or just enter references for me before I start writing and it saves a pile of time. Further, I can call references that my colleagues have entered.

Use Zotero

…jesus-tapdancing-christ-on-a-cracker, batman! How have I never heard of this?! I just pulled up a few videos on Zotero and this shit looks amazing!

I’m a semester into nursing school, and I know the higher we push that degree up, the more writing - and more strict with citations - the content becomes.

I’m downloading the shit out of this.

Thank you so much for making that your title!!

It’s pretty much abandonware, but the original mendeley software is the bomb. Starting to play with afforai and it seems interesting.