Best Reference Management Software for Microsoft Word
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Compare the Top Reference Management Software that integrates with Microsoft Word as of September 2025
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This a list of Reference Management software that integrates with Microsoft Word. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Microsoft Word. View the products that work with Microsoft Word in the table below.
What is Reference Management Software for Microsoft Word?
Reference management software helps researchers, students, and academics organize and manage their sources and citations for writing papers, articles, or reports. These tools enable users to collect, store, and categorize references from books, journals, websites, and other sources. They often include features for generating citations and bibliographies in various formats (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.), saving time and ensuring accuracy. Many reference management tools integrate with word processors, allowing users to easily insert citations and create reference lists directly within their documents. Additionally, these platforms often provide collaboration features, making it easy to share and manage research projects with team members. Compare and read user reviews of the best Reference Management software for Microsoft Word currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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ReadCube Papers
ReadCube
Search across your favorite scholarly search engines (in app and via our handy browser extensions) and enjoy 1-click downloads to quickly add references & full-text PDFs to your library. Check out our personalized recommendation engine and related article feeds to ensure you never miss an important paper again. Papers helps you focus on the task at hand with our full-screen Enhanced PDF reader. Highlight, underline, strike through, make inline notes, draw and add sticky notes. Switch between different documents with tabs, view supplemental files or jump to referenced articles - conveniently linked inline. Papers automatically identifies and matches imported articles with not only the complete metadata, but also available supplemental data, citations and full-text (if available). Papers users can create private shared collections to collaborate with up to 30 other Papers users at a given time. Simply add your collaborator by email and they will be added to your shared folder.Starting Price: $3 per month -
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Sorc'd
Sorc'd
We created Sorc'd to help people: be more productive; strengthen and share relevant information from reliable sources; and be less frustrated with the overwhelming amount of information. Recall digestible pieces of information from your cloud-based account or discover new ones from others. Add snippets from your online repository to your writing or share via social channels. Capture snippets from your browser when researching with our free Chrome extension. Then integrate those snippets into your content directly from Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets. Sorc'd is a free Google add-on for the Google Office Suite offering the best and most convenient way to: 1.) import snippets of valuable information directly from Sorc'd into a Google Doc, Google Slide or Google Sheet, and 2.) export snippets of information from within a Google Doc, Slide or Sheet that you may want to reference later, import into new content, share with colleagues or directly through social outlets.Starting Price: $15 per month -
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EndNote
Clarivate
Did you know that researchers waste nearly 200,000 hours per year formatting citations? Imagine if you could have that time back to spend on your research. EndNote 20 accelerates your research process so you can focus on what truly matters – conducting and sharing groundbreaking research. Easily collaborate across geographic boundaries. Share some or all of your library and set permissions for access. Use tools that find PDFs for you throughout your search process. Then, easily read, review, annotate and search PDFs in your library. Match your paper with relevant, reputable journals using Manuscript Matcher. Create rules to automatically organize references as you work. And, use the new Tabs feature for easier multitasking.Starting Price: $110.53 one-time payment -
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Sciwheel
Sciwheel
Save references directly from the web, including Google Scholar and PubMed. Whenever you come across an interesting article we’ll save the web link, full citation data and the PDF (when available). You can see your notes and co-author comments without leaving your document. Once you make a note, you can easily search to find them. Notes are accessible wherever you view the article or PDF on the web. Our algorithm suggests articles to ensure you never miss an important paper. You can also search for related articles while writing your paper. Find your references and search multiple databases, all within Microsoft Word and Google Docs. Automatically generate your bibliography in one of 7,000+ styles. Never miss an important article with Smart citation suggestions*. Read, annotate and save articles from any computer, mobile or tablet (Android and iOS). Have all your references, notes and suggested articles available across your devices.Starting Price: $9.95 per month -
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Paperpile
Paperpile
Paperpile offers clean and simple and reference management for the web. Sync your library to all your devices and read and annotate like on paper on your iPad, iPhone, or Android device. Cite your papers in Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Organize your papers with folders, labels and stars. Search your library in real-time. Automatically fix references with incomplete data and clean up duplicates. Download PDFs with one click and sync them directly to your Google Drive. Your files are available immediately on all your devices. Google Drive provides enough storage for even the largest libraries. Highlight the important parts of your papers in different colors. Add comments right where they belong. Use private sharing links to share with everyone, not just Paperpile users. With Paperpile you now can also manage your references collaboratively, and Google Docs makes it easy to collaborate with your colleagues on a paper.Starting Price: $2.99 per month -
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Biblioscape
Biblioscape
With Biblioscape, you will never need to enter a reference by typing. Just click the "Internet" button while in a reference folder. There are 40 plus popular bibliographic database sites listed each with a short instruction. You can just search the database, select the records you want to download and make a few clicks to capture those records directly into your database. There are many sites supporting direct export of bibliographic records and you can use any web browser to send download records directly into Biblioscape database. Search against university and public libraries catalog inside Biblioscape. Search results will be automatically downloaded into the "Online Search" folder of your Biblioscape database. There are 2,500 plus library connection files pre-made. You can add more easily in Biblioscape.Starting Price: $39 one-time payment -
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Zotero
Zotero
Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere. Zotero helps you organize your research any way you want. You can sort items into collections and tag them with keywords. Or create saved searches that automatically fill with relevant materials as you work. Zotero can optionally synchronize your data across devices, keeping your notes, files, and bibliographic records seamlessly up to date. If you decide to sync, you can also always access your research from any web browser. Zotero lets you co-write a paper with a colleague, distribute course materials to students, or build a collaborative bibliography. You can share a Zotero library with as many people you like, at no cost. -
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BibSonomy
BibSonomy
Using BibSonomy you can easily create collections of bookmark and publication posts. Just insert bookmarks and publications. You can do this even faster with our BibSonomy browser add-ons or bookmarklets. In addition, you can also use ISBN, ISSN, DOI, or barcodes to have the insert publication form filled up automatically for you. Use tags to organize the posts in your collection. If you choose them carefully, tags are a very powerful instrument. Learn more about tagging in BibSonomy. BibSonomy helps you create bibligraphies for scientific papers. If you use a specific tag for each bibliography and assign it to all your paper posts accordingly, you can use the tag to find all papers of the bibliography. Afterwards, you can export your publication list in the desired format. BibSonomy supports a lot of formats, e. g. Microsoft Word Reference Manager, EndNote, and BibTeX. -
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refbase
refbase
refbase can import and export references in various formats (including BibTeX, Endnote, RIS, PubMed, ISI Web of Science, CSA Illumina, RefWorks, MODS XML, OpenOffice, and MS Word). It can make formatted lists of citations in HTML, RTF, PDF, or LaTeX, and offers powerful searching, and RSS support. Its OpenSearch and SRU/W web services, and support for unAPI & COinS metadata allow for easy access by clients and search engines. Please see our Feature highlights page for a more detailed description of features. An overview of the major feature additions in refbase-0.9.5 is given here. You can download the stable release version of refbase from the SourceForge download page. Please see the instructions on how to install or update refbase. The latest source code can be checked out and installed from the refbase Subversion repository. We invite you to test-drive refbase at the refbase Demo Database (latest stable release version) or the refbase Beta Database (latest development version).
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