In Part I, we started to dive a little deeper on the choosing software for creating and maintaining a source database. After deciding on your software, it can be somewhat intimidiating to actually organize all those readings you have done and will do. First I will share some basic practices I have come to use, and then turn to discussing categories and tags as they pertain to your database.
1. Make sure to include the full bibliographic citation – This seems obvious but with many sources distributed or accessed digitally it can be easy to include only the name of, say, a chapter and author in