There are 2 main rivaling programs to handle your scientific references. One is free/libre software (#Zotero), the other is not (#Mendeley). Guess which one you should use?
Hint: if you use the closed source one, it will encrypt your article-database and not give you the possibility to decrypt and export it.
@Maltimore I am using Zotero for my thesis and this does the trick very well, too bad it's not more promoted in academia
@Maltimore There's also Refworks, which is closed, bad and expensive. Guess which one our university promotes?
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I didn't know that, but thankfully, I'm using Zotero.