What is Bookends?
Bookends is a reference management application designed specifically for Mac users. It helps scholars, students, and researchers organize and format bibliographic data to easily create citations and bibliographies for essays, dissertations, and published papers.
With Bookends, you can:
- Import references from online databases like PubMed and library catalogs
- Organize references into groups for different projects or topics
- Annotate references with highlighted text and comments
- Sync your library across multiple Macs via Bookends On Tap and other cloud services
- Cite references while writing in Microsoft Word or Pages using the Bookends integration
- Choose from thousands of citation formats (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc) and customize styles
- Attach PDFs and other files to references for easy access
- Scan OPAC barcodes to automatically import books and articles
- Share references with colleagues using encrypted libraries
Overall, Bookends aims to simplify building and managing an academic reference library. Its tools help streamline research and writing workflows for students, teachers, and publishers.
EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, Citavi, Qiqqa, JabRef, Paperpile, ReadCube Papers, wizdom.ai, EasyBib, BibSonomy, Zenreader, Bibtex Editor are some alternatives to Bookends.