citation management tools comparison: Home

Option for students / university researchers / EH staff with university affiliations:

The paid version of EndNote is available through an educational institution licence (eg. EH Staff with an university affiliation will be able to download and install EndNote desktop (EndNote X9 or 20 from their university library) to own computers.

 Own-purchase via EndNote

To install EndNote on EH computers / laptops, EH IT admin authentication is requested. Please contact EH IT to proceed.

Free option:

Register to EndNote and get access to EndNote Basic.

Free download is available from Mendeley Ltd, Elsevier.

To install Mendeley on EH computers/laptops, EH IT admin authentication is requested. Please contact EH IT to proceed.

An open source software that can be downloaded freely.

Download to EH computers is allowed. IT admin authentication is not required.

Desktop version

ûFree online version

Create an account to access EndNote Online for free (applies to both paid and free version of EndNote)

For EndNote X6, X7 & X8 users who do not already have an EndNote Online account:

Update to EndNote 20 is required for synchronisation to work according to Clarivate

Paid version: Unlimited

Free version: 2 GB

2 GB

Upgrade to Premium is available 

300 MB

Upgrade options are available 

Single /bulk citations import from common academic databases

Manual input interface

Single citation imports from Google Scholar

Any other resource from the sites providing citations in RIS, BibTex or PDF formats

Single /bulk citations import from common academic databases

Single citation imports in BibTeX format from Google Scholar

Manual input interface

Browser tool Mendeley Web Importer can be used for import citations in BibTeX format from Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.

Single /bulk citations import from common academic databases

Manual input interface

Browser tool Zotero Connector can be used for import citations in BibTeX format. It is available for Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.

For all users with paid version of EndNote access & Microsoft Word:

The Cite While You Write (CWYW) feature for Microsoft Word is built-in. (No need for further installation of plug-in).

For all users using free EndNote Basic:

A CWYW plug-in is required. (This plug-in works best for Chrome and Edge but does not work for Firefox in Windows OS)

For macOS users using Pages as word processor:

A plug-in is requested. (see video instructions).

For users using LaTeX as word processor:

Watch video instructions, created by EndNoteTraining

Mendeley Cite app for generate in-text references and bibiographies and change citation style in Microsoft Word

For exporting citations from Mendeley into LaTeX:

Watch video instructions, created by Federico Tartarini

Paid version

û Free version

Paid version: Unlimited number of references + unlimited attachments

Free version: Up to 50,000 references + 2 GB of attachments

Automatically collect full-text PDFs, if available, and added to the record of the corresponding reference via the Find Full Text feature.

Browser tool EndNote Click, formerly Kopernio, is available for Chrome, Firefox and Opera.

The built-in Find full-text feature only applies to references searched within Mendeley search platform for both open-access and IP-restricted access articles.

Using browser tool Mendeley Web Importer will collect full-texts PDFs, if available, automatically while you import the citations. 

iOS devices

ûAndroid devices

No official apps but an alternative to both iOS and Android devices are available