Reference management tools are useful for storing and sharing references and creating bibliographies and citing in texts. Different tools are available so you may wish to try them out, ask your supervisor, other colleagues and researchers in your department what they are using and look at their functionality before making a choice.
CiteULike: A free online tool for saving and sharing references, and for discovering academic papers as you can see what resources have been used by other researchers – see who is reading the same papers as you. There is no plug in for Word, but you can export citations into other software.
RefWorks An online research management, writing and collaboration tool. It is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
Mendeley: A free academic reference management software for researchers. Enables you to save and share references via the Web. It is a free reference manager and social networking tool enabling you to save and share references and to read your papers anywhere via the web.
Zotero A plug in for the Firefox browser. It enables you to capture references from web pages. There is also a plug in for Word to enable you to insert references into your papers. Please note that you must use Firefox to use Zotero.