Keeping and citing sources

This branch covers managing sources after retrieval, divided by the task: organising notes and articles, using reference software, citing and attributing material, and checking retraction status. Style-manual selection, claim-by-claim confirmation of a finished manuscript and handling citations after retraction sit outside this branch.

• Organising the notes and articles a search produces — source-linked notes, saved web material, file organisation, personal article libraries and large collections of mixed material
• Working with a reference manager — records, imports, duplicates, word-processor citations, field codes, styles, sharing, licences and library-based discovery tools
• References and attribution — source selection, citation placement, reference fields and styles, quotation, attribution and checking support for claims
• Checking whether a paper you cite has been retracted — retraction notices, gaps in marking and searches to establish a paper’s status