Papers helps you collect and curate the research material that you're passionate about. Our award-winning reference manager will dramatically improve the way you discover, organize, read, annotate, share and cite.
'I wish I would have known about ReadCube Papers in college. This is amazing. I'm in love.'
'Papers is an excellent app for organizing my personal library, citations, references, and write notes.'
The reference manager you’ve been looking for Bookends is a 64-bit full-featured and cost-effective bibliography, reference, and information management system for students and professionals. Bookends requires Mac macOS 10.13 or later (including Catalina, macOS 10.15). Nov 17, 2015 The University of Minnesota now offers free subscriptions to Office 365 Pro Plus for all staff, faculty, and students. This affects citation managers that integrate with Microsoft Word. Fortunately, most of them have responsive software teams.
'ReadCube Papers is the best! It's on all of my devices. I love it!'
'Great app, love it for organizing research papers and other publications.'
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'Simple, intuitive, works online (web browser) and offline (desktop app). Smart lists are also really useful.'
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'Papers is extremely helpful and makes everything organized well. I really appreciate what you have contributed to the research community.'
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'I continue to be impressed by the steady of new features added each month.'
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'It is a very helpful tool, I like it very much - even more than Papers3! Thank you for that!'
'Papers is intuitive with so many useful built-in features. Thank you very much for this wonderful app.'
'Fantastic repository management, ease of use and automatic data uploading. Such a useful piece of software!'
'I am happy to have continued using Papers and have always been positive + have recommended it to colleagues.'
'The Papers browser extension plugin is my favorite part of the app.'
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Search & Save
Search across your favorite scholarly search engines (in app and via our handy browser extensions) and enjoy 1-click downloads to quickly add references & full-text PDFs to your library.
Check out our personalized recommendation engine and related article feeds to ensure you never miss an important paper again.
Read & Annotate
Papers helps you focus on the task at hand with our full-screen Enhanced PDF reader. Highlight, underline, strike through, make inline notes, draw and add sticky notes. Switch between different documents with tabs, view supplemental files or jump to referenced articles - conveniently linked inline.
Cite Faster with SmartCite
Our users LOVE SmartCite because it's fast, reliable, and most important - easy to use! Simply add the SmartCite Add-in to Word (2016+) or Google Docs and you'll have access to your entire library right from your document.
- Search for references within your personal or shared collections or use our built-in search engine.
- APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Nature... choose from over 9000 citation styles built into SmartCite. Need something specific? Customize your own style!
- SmartCite was made for collaboration so simply email your document to another Papers users and they'll be able to pick up right where you left off!
It's Time to Get Organized
Say goodbye to desktop clutter and those folders of uncategorized PDFs.
Papers automatically identifies and matches imported articles with not only the complete metadata, but also available supplemental data, citations and full-text (if available).
What's more? Use tags, labels, ratings, smart collections, file management and watch folders to keep you organized down the road.
Share & Collaborate.
Papers users can create private shared collections to collaborate with up to 30 other Papers users at a given time. Simply add your collaborator by email and they will be added to your shared folder. Perfect for remote teams, lab collaborations, journal club, or tackling that upcoming manuscript.
Looking for a custom solution for larger teams? Learn more about our Academic and Enterprise plans
Citation Manager Software Mac Free Software
Sync Across Devices
Securely sync your entire library including notes, lists, annotations, and even highlights across all of your devices including your desktop (Mac/PC), mobile devices (iOS/Android) or even through the Web.
Plus enjoy unlimited cloud storage space for your growing personal Papers library.
Citation Manager Software Mac Free Trial
| EndNote Desktop | EndNote Web | Mendeley | Zotero | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Available to all faculty, staff, graduate, and medical students via CIS. Endnote from CIS | Free; upgraded version available free to Brown users via Web of Science. SeeEndNote Online. | Free (additional cost for more storage and group functionality available from Mendeley) | Free and open source (additional cost for more storage available from Zotero) |
| System requirements | Windows 7 and above, MacOS 10.10 and above, more details from EndNote | Windows 2007 or later, Mac OS X 10.6 or later, more details from EndNote | Windows 7 or later, Mac OS 10.10 and above, and Linux, more details from Mendeley | Windows XP SP2 or later, MacOS 10.9 or later, and Linux, more details from Zotero |
| Where data is stored | Computer | Web | Computer with web based syncing | Computer with optional web based syncing |
| Work offline | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Work from multiple computers | Must sync with EndNote web | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Word Processors | MS Word 2007 and above, Word for Mac 2011 and above, Google Docs | MS Word 2007 or later, Microsoft Word 2008 SP1/2011 plug-in for Macs, Google Docs | MS Word, Libre Office, BibTex export for use with LaTex | MS Word 2003-2016, Word for Mac 2004-2016, Google Docs |
| Mobile app | iPad app | No | iPad/iPhone/Adroid apps | iOS and Android apps |
| Share library | Share entire library (references, PDFs, annotations) with up to 100 EndNote users | Share with other EndNote Web users. All users can edit shared groups, but cannot share file attachments | Yes | Yes |
| Storage size | Unlimited | 2 GB free | 2 GB free, $ for more storage | 30 mb free, $ for more storage |
| Number of reference types | 50 | 51 | 20 | 38 |
| Import citation information from web | No | Yes, with bookmarklet | Yes, with a bookmark for a limited number of sites (mostly publishers or databases) | Yes |
| Import citation from library catalog | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Import citation from library databases | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Search database/catalog from within program | Yes | Yes | Catalog only | No |
| Retrieve citation information from pdf | Yes, from DOI or PubMed ID fields | No | Yes - extracted information from PDF, DOI, PubMed and Mendeley database | Yes - uses DOI, extracted information from PDF or Google Scholar |
| Global find/replace editing | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Field searching | Yes, any field | No - searches entire record | Yes, author, title, publication name, year & notes fields | Yes, any field |
| Duplicate detection | Yes, able to modify fields to use for deduplication | Yes from same database, but will not usually recognize duplicates from different databases | Yes | Yes |
| Add notes to references | Yes, use notes field | Yes, use notes field | Yes, use notes tab in desktop version | Yes, attached to references or as standalone notes |
| Spell check | Yes | No | No | No |
| Attach pdfs | Yes with option to attach automatically | No | Yes, and can highlight and annotate PDFs | Yes, with option to attach automatically |
| Search for and attach PDFs | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Annotate pdfs | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Search attached pdfs | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Create bibliography with different styles | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, limited default number, others download from Zotero |
| Edit output style | Yes | No | No | Yes, but very difficult |
| Online Tutorials & Videos | EndNote Training Channel | EndNote Training Channel | Mendeley Videos & Tutorials | Zotero Tutorials |