Bibliographic Management Applications (BMAs)

Bibliographic Management Applications (BMAs)

1. Concept

   • Also known as Reference Managing Software (RMS)
   • Tools that enable the creation, organisation and management of bibliographic references.

2. Main elements of a BMA

   • Adding new references
     • Manually
     • Directly
     • Indirectly
     • Other methods
   • Managing data
     • Adding tags
     • Putting references into folders
     • Adding notes and commentaries
     • Save references in a specific standard by default
   • Generating bibliographic references automatically
     • Directly from the application
     • Using a Word Processor

3. BMA TYPOLOGY

   • Initially divided into
     • Classic
     • Web-based
     • Social networks
   • Later reduced to two modalities:
     • Commercial BMAs
       • EndNote
       • RefWorks
       • Mendeley
     • Open-source BMAs
       • Zotero