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As EndNote recently released EndNote20, and Mendeley is making significant changes, this chart may not be completely accurate. We will update it as soon as more information on these products is available.
This table provides a comparison of major features for some of the tools we support. See Wikipedia’s Comparison of Reference Management Software for extensive comparisons of many other citation managers.
| EndNote Desktop | EndNote Basic | Mendeley | Zotero | |
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| Cost | Requires purchase of an individual license or by department. | Free; UW-Madison users have more citation styles available in accounts which use their @wisc.edu email | Free; option to pay for additional cloud storage or additional private groups | Free; option to pay for additional cloud storage |
| Operating System Requirements (for most recent version) | Windows and Mac (macOS Catalina 10.15 will only support EndNote X9) | Web-based | Windows; Mac; Linux | Windows; Mac; Linux |
| Export data between citation managers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Global find/replace editing | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Duplicate detection | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Journal abbreviation lists | 12 lists supplied but must be installed for each library | None | Abbreviations based on citation style selected; can be edited | Version 4.0 and later can automatically abbreviate journal titles in Index Medicus/MEDLINE format |
| Attachment limits | Max of 45 attachments per citation; no limit on file size or total cloud storage | No limit on attachments per citation; no limit on file size; total attachment storage limited to 2GB |
No limit on attachments per citation; Attachment file size limited to 250MB; total (free) attachment cloud storage limited to 2GB |
No limit on attachments per citation; no limit on file size; total (free) attachment cloud storage limited to 300MB |
| Retrieve citation information from PDF | Yes- uses DOI or PubMed ID fields | No | Yes- PDF text analyzed for information, DOI, Arxiv, PubMed, Crossref ids all used; Mendeley also uses it's own database to check citations | Yes - uses DOI or other extracted information from PDF; matches in Google Scholar |
| Add notes to references | Yes, in “notes” field | Yes, in “notes” field | Yes, via “notes” tab in desktop version | Yes, notes can stand alone or be attached to references |
| Annotate PDFs | Yes | No | Yes | No, but will sync PDFs annotated with 3rd party software |
| Full-text PDF search | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Direct search of online databases | Yes: List | Yes: List | Can search the Mendeley database (papers in the libraries of other users) | No |
| Direct export from online datbases | Yes: List (Connection files) | Yes, via Capture Reference importer | Yes, via web importer | Yes, via web translators |
| Filters for importing from online databases | Yes - list of over 500 | Yes | Import from supported websites and databases via web importer. | Imports wikis, websites, and databases via translators. Web snapshot retains the presentation of a particular web page. |
| Creates formatted bibliographies and in-text citations in a word processor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Edit or create citation styles | Yes | No | Yes, via the Mendeley CSL | Yes, via Citation Style Editor |
| Collaboration and sharing | Free sharing of citations and attachments with up to 100 EndNote users |
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| Read-only sharing | Yes (Set library to read-only or locked status) | Yes (Read-only share “group” with anyone who has an EndNote Web account) | Yes (By “follow” option through web interface) | Yes (Via member settings within groups) |
| Mobile device applications | iPad app | No | iPad/iPhone app, Android app | 3rd party iOS and Android apps |
| Screen capture webpages | No | No | No | Yes |
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| Number of reference types | 50 pre-defined(customizable); 3 user-created | 51 pre-defined | 20 pre-defined | 38 pre-defined |
| Auto-complete data entry | Yes, for author(s), keyword(s), and journal title | No | Yes, for journal title, tags, keywords | Yes, for author(s), journal title, tags |
| Spell check | Yes | No | No | No |
| Sorting capabilities | Any field | Author, title, year, and more | Any field | Any field |
| Field searching | Yes, any field | No - searches entire record only | Yes, by author, title, publication names, year & notes | Yes, any field |
| RSS feeds | No | No | Yes | Yes |