Bibliographic Management Applications (BMAs)

Concept
1. Also known as Reference Managing Software (RMS)
2. Tools that enable the creation, organisation and management of bibliographic references.
Main elements of a BMA
1. Adding new references
  1. Manually
  2. Directly
  3. Indirectly
  4. Other methods
2. Managing data
  1. Adding tags
  2. Putting references into folders
  3. Adding notes and commentaries
  4. Save references in a specific standard by default
3. Generating bibliographic references automatically
  1. Directly from the application
  2. Using a Word Processor
BMA TYPOLOGY
1. Initially divided into
  1. Classic
  2. Web-based
  3. Social networks
2. Later reduced to two modalities:
  1. Commercial BMAs
    1. EndNote
    2. RefWorks
    3. Mendeley
  2. Open-source BMAs
    1. Zotero

Resource summary

	Created by Silvia Liaño Pons 12 months ago