There are a variety of free citation management tools to help you with your research and citing.
Take time to view the tutorials first for example Zotero. https://infoguides.rit.edu/zotero/tutorials
- Go to the zotero's website to register and to create your own username and password
- Download the zotero desktop app
- Download the zotero windows app to appear in Microsoft Word
- Download zotero's web browser connectors
- Use the website forum pages to troubleshoot technical issues
- Zotero allows you to use googledoc or a word document to add your list of collected article citations
- To reorder intext citations: highlight the intext citation then make the change then hit refresh
Zotero’s FAQ: Zotero will renumber citations if you move text around automatically . You might have to hit the Refresh button in the Word add-on. Zoteor source link: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/52513/how-to-change-the-order-of-citation-in-word-plug-in