Zotero and Mendeley
Whichever side of the Zotero-or-Mendeley debate you landed on, your library imports into Dock and cites in any of 10,000+ styles. BibTeX covers everything else.
Every grad student has fought the Zotero-or-Mendeley war at least once, and half of Reddit is still fighting it. Dock is neutral territory. Whichever reference manager holds your library, and however many years of PDFs and painstaking metadata live inside it, you connect the account and cite from it here. Nothing gets rebuilt, nothing gets retyped.
Connect your Zotero account and your library is available to insert as citations, formatted to whichever style your document uses. The connection stays linked, so pulling a source is a click, not a re-authentication ritual every session.
Mendeley connects the same way. Link the account and your references are ready to insert and format. If you are one of the many who stayed on Mendeley after the desktop app was retired, this is also a quiet exit route: your library keeps working here regardless of what Mendeley does next.
For references that live outside a connected account, BibTeX is the bridge:
- Import a BibTeX file and its references join your Dock library in one step.
- Export to BibTeX to carry your sources into another tool, a collaborator's setup, or a submission system that expects it.
BibTeX keeps the structured record intact, so a source that arrives this way formats and reformats like any other.
Imported references behave exactly like sources you saved directly. They sit in your Citation Library, insert as in-text markers, and feed the Bibliography as you write. To put one behind a claim, see Citations.