Endnote is a relatively long-standing program that is known for providing citation management to Word. There’s actually no lack of citation managers out there. This led me on a quest to find a slightly better reference management system. There are also a number of references that simply aren’t on the digital library and have taken a bit of effort to acquire, so I’d rather not lose them. I also need files so I can transfer them to my iPad and iPhone. I can use Spotlight (rather than Google) to look for files on my hard drive. One may wonder – why keep files at all? Can’t you just grab them from the ACM Digital Library when you need them?
You have to often add them manually to each entry, and it doesn’t keep them organized nicely on the file system. One of the limitations of BibDesk is that it doesn’t handle files very well. It’s extremely lightweight, stores data in BibTeX format, and is quite portable across systems. Right now, I use BibDesk for much of my reference management. One thing that I like about LaTeX is that its citation management is quite good – it’s easy to add references, move them around, and have the Bibliography build properly.
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