 Hello all. In this video, we are going to see about the importance of reference management software tools. Before going to the importance of reference management software, I am going to justify why referencing is important. What is referencing? How long this referencing has been in practice? It has been in practice long time ago. That is, the famous Thirukural couplet says, To discern the truth in everything by whom so ever spoken is wisdom. Truth of the statement should be known by the reader. So, for that we need to produce our reference. In context of the research, when we are making the referencing, we are doing the research for this purpose. That is, we have to give due credit to the authors who have used it, who have found something significant for our research. That is the first and foremost important thing about doing the reference. Then, in order to escape from our plagiarism, the third thing is then, if you add more reference, your content will be more authentic, more informative and more original. So, for that you need references. But when you are handling the reference, it is not so easy to handle these references. You have two important challenges. One is to deal with the formats. That is, you have Van Gogh's tales or Howard's tales, the most commonly used tales and there are n number of tales. Different universities ask for different type of references or the different format of references. So, when they ask, you have to sit and really change the content of the reference or the punctuation marks, everything you need to work on. That is the first challenge. Second challenge is to change the numbers. So, when you are changing the numbers, if you are removing the fifth number, then you have to change the entire numbering system. So, these are the two challenges when we are dealing with the reference and these challenges can be easily sorted out by the use of reference manager software. Believe me, reference manager software makes your reference management very, very easy. So, the most commonly used softwares are Mennli and Zootero. Those softwares are the most freely available softwares and I have been discussing in demos about this Mennli and Zootero softwares. You can see the demonstration of these videos in my channel and the links have been provided in the description. You can see those videos and you can comment your feedback.