Managing your customer reference information and content is an intrinsic part of CRM. If Salesforce is your CRM solution then you want your Sales team to find reference functionality and information where it’s most convenient: Opportunities, Accounts and Contacts. The marketing team should operate in the same environment as Sales, enabling effortless navigation between reference management tasks and standard Salesforce records such as Accounts, Contacts, Cases and Opportunities. All reference data should reside in the same place, be real-time, and be accessible using Salesforce Reports and Dashboards.

Distill over 10 years of experience supporting enterprise customer reference programs and package those best practices into a native Salesforce app, and you have ReferenceEdge. There's no need for syncing, no API integration, and all your data and reference management functionality is accessed through a single pane of glass: Salesforce.

ReferenceEdge leverages standard Salesforce components and features such as Salesforce Chatter®, workflow, tasks, role hierarchy, profiles and permission sets. A native solution ensures maximum user adoption, reduced learning curve, and scalability.

MLA, APA, Chicago / Turabian and most-common Bluebook forms as an integrated citing and note-taking platform for individual or group projects. Prompts for analysis of source types and is unique in offering teaching support and personal help on any citation. Instructor / librarian view allows teacher to comment on work-in-progress providing just-in-time feedback in-context. Archives copies of web pages and pdfs which can be annotated. Dashboard provides long-term access to a portfolio of work.

NoodleTools MLA Lite is a free version with a Bibliography component and limited set of citation types appropriate for elementary or middle-school students.

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. It allows users to generate bibliographies, find and import papers of interest, access your papers from anywhere online, and collaborate with other researchers online. Mendeley has also developed an iOS app that allows users to sync across devices and access their libraries from wherever they are.