The existence of hundreds of citation styles makes publishing complicated for authors, because they have to learn which citation style to use in the respective journal and carefully study the citation guide again and again. Therefore, many authors use a citation manager, which is an application allowing you to extract bibliographic references of documents from databases and catalogues, and insert them in the form of citations and bibliographic references into your own text.

At present there are a wide range of citation managers. We recommend the free Zotero application due to its user-friendliness (www.zotero.org). Although a citation manager definitely makes citing easier, remember that you should always check that the citations and bibliographic references created by the manager correspond to the requirements of the respective citation style.

The Zotero citation manager, for example, works as follows: after it is installed, a record from a catalogue/online database can be downloaded into the panel (the bottom part of the picture on the left) by clicking on the icon in the address bar of your internet browser. In this example the icon is blue, which signifies a book. Then, you can enter both the citation and the bibliographic reference into the text in a word processor (in the sample here MS Word) and format it according to various citation styles (the right bottom window). The Czech manual on how to use Zotero is available at the addresshttp://www.ukb.muni.cz/kuk/vyuka/materialy.