When you select and retrieve the studies for your review, you will need to store them.
A citation manager is a software tool that helps you keep track of and cite sources as you go through the research process. Citation managers offer an organized place to store the studies you find so that your reviewers can also view and assess them. You can choose a citation or reference manager or other specially developed tools.
Citations managers used for systematic reviews include:
For more information, please see our citation management guide.
You might also refer to the following articles:
Kwon, Y., Lemieux, M., McTavish, J., & Wathen, N. (2015). Identifying and removing duplicate records from systematic review searches. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 103(4), 184–188.
Bramer WM, Giustini D, de Jonge GB, Holland L, Bekhuis T. De-duplication of database search results for systematic reviews in EndNote. J Med Libr Assoc. 2016 Jul;104(3):240-3. Erratum in: J Med Libr Assoc. 2017 Jan;105(1):111
