Concept ?

Idea: use a specialized software to manage your bibliography, and not crappy hand-made solutions or habits.

A solution: Zotero

The official website of this project is www.Zotero.org (no surprise), and it is a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)!

More information are available on this page in English.

And if needed, Wikipédia also has interesting things to say.

Plugins ?

It's quick and easy (and free) to download (on this page):

• a plugin for the Firefox browser, to easily add any web-page (research or newspaper article, an arXiv or a Google Scholar page, etc) to your Zotero database,
• the same plugin, but for the Chrome browser,
• a plugin for Microsoft® Word® or its open-source clones (OpenOffice or Libre Office),
• and a standalone Windows desktop program, as well as programs for both Linux and Mac OS X.

More ?

Zotero could also be used to easily insert a citation to one of your bibliographic reference, when writing a document with Word or OpenOffice / Libre Office, without even having to switch between apps or tabs. This cool feature is presented here.

Zotero also allows you to quickly convert your database to a single BibTeX file, if you want to use LaTeX.