At their most basic, citation management tools allow you to:
- Collect articles, books, webpages (and lots more) for use in research.
- Format and create bibliographies using a particular citation style, to export into a research document.
More advanced features in citation management tools allow you to:
- Link to source materials.
- Store source materials.
- Insert in-text citations and bibliography entries while writing in a word processor.
- Collaborate with others.
- Annotate within PDFs.
