EndNote

EndNote is not the only software for referencing. There are some free alternative tools listed on this page. The Library does not provide assistance for these tools, but there are a number of online support materials that are available for you to use.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organise, cite and share your research sources. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files. Each user receives 300 MB of free storage. Additional storage is available for purchase.

Access and downloads

• Download Zotero You'll need the app and the browser plug in
• Zotero connector
• Zotfile plug in to manage PDF attachments.

Zotero help

Help is available from Zotero’s website .

Zotero user guide This guide can be translated into 16 other languages:
English (en), Czech (cs), German (de), Spanish (es), Persian / Farsi (fa), French (fr), Indonesian (id), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Russian (ru), Slovenian (sl), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr), and Mandarin Chinese (zh).

Reminder – CQUniversity does not provide assistance with this software.

Mendeley is a reference manager as well as an academic social network. Your are able to create a library of references, cite as you write and read and annotate PDFs.

• There is a free version which you can continue using after you graduate. Each user receives 1 GB storage, additional storage and features are available for purchase.
• There is a subscription version, with extra storage, which current students and staff can access vis the Library's subscription to Elsevier. If you have a Scopus or SciVal account for saving searches, creating alerts or managing your author profile, you can use this to access Mendeley. If you don't already have one, use the Create Account button in the top right corner of the screen in either Scopus or SciVal .

Access and downloads

• Create a free account
• Mendeley Desktop for Windows (7, 8.1 and 10)
• Mendeley Reference Manager Lite app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch (iOS 10.0 or later)
• Web Importer bookmarklet

Mendeley help

View help guides and video tutorials from:

• Getting started with Mendeley Guides
• Elsevier's Mendeley LibGuide

Reminder - CQUniversity does not provide assistance with this software.

If you are using either Zotero or Mendeley as your referencing software, you will need to choose a style that matches the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) guide for your referencing style. These are the best matches, but you may still need to do some editing to if there are differences between these versions of the styles and your ALC guide. Use the link to download the style file.

• APA 7th – American Psychological Association 7th edition (.csl)
• Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC4) – AGLC4 (.csl)
• Harvard CQU – Monash University – Harvard (.csl)
• Turabian – Turabian 8th edition (full note) (.csl)
• Vancouver – Vancouver (superscript) (.csl)

If you need to edit a style to make it a better match for the ALC guide, you can use the Mendeley CSL editor . (The styles are saved as csl files.)