Overview

Zotero is one of many software options for managing references. These applications can help you keep track of references you have gathered, organize them into useful categories, and most importantly, be used to format and manage references in a document, saving untold hours of time. Other options are Mendeley and Endnote, among many others. Zotero is a free open-source software is that is very popular and hence enjoys the participation of many developers and journals.

Adoption of reference software appears to be lagging in horticulture crops. Few horticulture journals have developed a .csl file that can be used by reference software. This will likely change with time.

One reason to use reference software is massive author lists: