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Systematic reviews

Overview of systematic review steps and resources to assist researchers conducting reviews.

Managing your citations

During a systematic review you can expect to gather many hundreds or thousands of resource citations, and it is vital that these are managed efficiently. 

Put the results of your searches into citation management software such as EndNote, and organise each database searched into separate groups. There are other free citation management tools available, such as Mendeley and Zotero. 

Note: the University Library provides training and support for EndNote, but not Mendeley or Zotero. 

You can find guides to bulk exporting references from some popular databases in the Library's EndNote guide, in the Exporting references to an EndNote library section.

The Library's Advanced Searching for Health Sciences also contains instructions for bulk exporting references from selected databases.
Refer to the Library's EndNote Essentials course and our EndNote guide for instructions in using EndNote: