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HALP!!!

I've been using EndNote for the past 10 years and I'm beginning to lose patience with the bugs and clumsiness of it all.  Can any of you recommend a reference management software package that is good for keeping a database as well as adapting to numerous journal formats?

Thanks in advance!

Are content management systems out of the question?  I have seen some Joomla solutions that are rather painless, albeit simplistic.

I need software that will auto format my bibliographies by Journal format.  Many software programs will have format libraries available for free download.  I also want something that will allow me to enter articles as I obtain them and save them in libraries by type/subject/author.

Ah, sorry.  I misunderstood. 

Word 2010 has a decent reference manager (does lots of different biblio styles), but I don't keep years of references around ..

It's been so long since I've written a paper, and I'm happy for that fact.   :awesome_for_real:  The last program I used was also Endnote, and it could be infuriating at times.  I've heard good things and bad things about Reference Manager.  This Refworks (http://www.refworks-cos.com/refworks/) one seems pretty interesting as I believe it is cloud based (and seems to be much cheaper than Endnote).

libTeX?

Endnote was what all the PC users used.  The linux peeps preferred libTeX.

Bah..I know I read an article comparing a couple of pieces of software like a year ago. Was probably on arstechnica, will see if I can find it when I am at home.

Zotero. I love it except for the note-taking.

Ah ha, I found the article. The two applications it mentions are "papers" if you are a Mac user, and "mendeley" on windows. Sorry, found the article on my work computer and have to browse f13 on my phone, heh.

Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/) is free and fantastic. I've been using it for about 2 years now and it's become an indispensable tool. It stores all papers locally and on a server with free storage, (additional storage is pretty cheap) so you can sync up between different systems, including mobile platforms. You can sort papers into folders and subfolders, share papers with others using groups, and auto-generate citations. Highlighting and inline notes are supported and saved with the documents, there are out-of-document fields for your own notes, and all of it is searchable along with the text in the documents themselves. On top of everything they have an optional social media layer with topic-based groups you can join and share papers, if you're into that.

I used Papers for a while but found it to be a bit awkward, and they started charging for yearly updates.

Edit: I'm not sure what software you use to write papers, but LaTeX makes formatting super easy by using a single format for the citation information (BibTeX) and then allowing you to provide a citation style when you compile the document. LaTeX has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get over the hump it makes writing fantastically formatted papers so easy.

Zotero also allows pretty extensive sharing of your citations with workgroups or for public view.