Endnote and Zotero are software tools that help you manage your citations, such as references and full-text of journal articles and book chapters. EndNote is provided free of charge to all current members of the McGill community and Zotero is free, open source software.
They may be used in literature reviews as a place to which you can export citations generated from searches in different databases and as a system to remove duplicate records retrieved across different databases. The retrieved records can then be analyzed for relevancy and sorted there. This technique is an alternative to "screening" records within the databases themselves, which can be frustrating if you have large sets of records to look through to identify relevant studies, for example (it can be easy to lose your screening work if you are reviewing records within a database like PubMed).
EndNote and Zotero are also extremely useful when writing your paper as it includes "Cite While You Write" functionality: You can add in-text citations and references to your document from your EndNote or Zotero library, and reformat them to the appropriate citation style automatically (e.g., APA, Vancouver).
Getting help with EndNote for Mac: http://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/citation/endnote
Getting help with EndNote for Windows: https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/citation/endnotePC
Getting help with Zotero: https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/citation/zotero
Citation and Referencing FAQ: http://mcgill.libanswers.com/citation
Link to Endnote and Zotero Workshops - "View by workshop" to see if EndNote Essentials or Zotero workshops are currently on offer
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