There are several software programs that can help you organize your sources and generate your citations. The Harvard Library offers information about Zotero, Endnote, and Overleaf Pro. If you are new to citation management tools, you might want to start with Zotero, since the Harvard Library offers extensive guidance for how to use it.
Zotero is a free tool that you can add to either Chrome or Firefox. Once you have Zotero installed, you can use it to organize, keep track of, and annotate your sources. You can find the Harvard Library Zotero installation guides here.
The Harvard Library also offers workshops to teach you how to set up and use Zotero for gathering and organizing your sources.
If you don’t have Zotero installed to manage your sources, you can use their citation generator, Zoterobib, to create citations for individual sources. When you use citation generators, it’s important to remember that the machine-generated citations are only as accurate as the information you put into them. You should always check your citations to make sure they are correctly formatted.