Percentual distribution of journals by subject areas recommending reference managers to authors
| Subject areas | Reference managers | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Products supporting CSL styles (%) | Bibstyle1 (%) | Bibtex2 (%) | Endnote (%) | Mendeley (%) | Reference manager (%) | Zotero (%) | Any reference manager software (%) | Not identifiable (%) | |
| Medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 27 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Nursing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Veterinary | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dentistry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Professions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arts and Humanities | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Decision Sciences | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 |
| Psychology | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Social Sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Neuroscience | 0 | 100 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| Chemical Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chemistry | 33 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Computer Science | 33 | 0 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 25 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Energy | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Environmental Science | 33 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Materials Science | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Mathematics | 33 | 0 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Physics and Astronomy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Multidisciplinary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Subject areas | Reference managers | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Products supporting CSL styles (%) | Bibstyle1 (%) | Bibtex2 (%) | Endnote (%) | Mendeley (%) | Reference manager (%) | Zotero (%) | Any reference manager software (%) | Not identifiable (%) | |
| Medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 27 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Nursing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Veterinary | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dentistry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Professions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arts and Humanities | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Decision Sciences | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 |
| Psychology | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Social Sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Neuroscience | 0 | 100 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| Chemical Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chemistry | 33 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Computer Science | 33 | 0 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 25 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Energy | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Environmental Science | 33 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Materials Science | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Mathematics | 33 | 0 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Physics and Astronomy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Multidisciplinary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Note(s):
1Bibstyle is a reference style adopted by some academic journals
2BibTeX is a fomatting tool used in LaTeX documents. And LaTeX is a marking system or program for publishing high quality typographic documents, specific for the elaboration of scientific texts
Source(s): Table by authors
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