![]() Overall a very handy solution for integrating BibDesk with Word. And it lets me do away with EndNote (unless a collaborator decides to insert an EndNote formatted bibliography!) It’s certainly not a point and click solution – but it does let me use BibDesk with Word for those times that I need to use it. It uses a BibDesk template file to format the bibliography – so if you need a differently formatted reference list you have to understand the somewhat arcane template language that BibDesk uses. It’s certainly not “cite while you write” – but that doesn’t bother me, coming form the LaTeX world. If you delete an in-text citation, a reformat will remove it from the bibliography and so on. However, Derick Fay on the BibDesk mailing list pointed out BibFuse, which is a set of AppleScript‘s that allow you to drag citations from a BibDesk window into Word and then format them all at one go (with appropriate numbering). This was a pain since I had to make sure that I kept everything in sync (and the EndNote UI sucks!). As a result I still have to use that monstrosity called MS Word. The only problem is that I haven’t been to persuade all my collaborators to use LaTeX. ![]() It has built in search capabilities for a variety of databases (PubMed, Library of Congress, SciFinder), support tags, PDF storage and indexing and overall made my life much easier. It’s oriented towards BibTeX and LaTeX but easily exports to RIS, EndNote XML, RTF, HTML and RSS. Then, click on Add next to the add-in’s name in the search results. Here, move to Store and search for Ghostwriter. Now, click on Add-ins in the top-right corner, and then select More Add-ins. This is a very nice GUI tool for managing references, with very responsive developers. First, go to ( visit) and log in with your Microsoft account. With BibDesk, your collection of PDFs and other documents is organized by author name, document title, date of publication, etc. See here and here for comparisons between various systems.īeing a Mac user I chose to work with BibDesk. BibDesk is a free and open-source reference manager that is under active development by a small group of volunteers (, n.d.). There are many such systems, both Open Source ( JabRef, pybibliographer) and commercial (EndNote, RefWorks etc). This calls for a bibliographic data management system. I’d like to pull references from PubMed or SciFinder. However, dealing with bibliographies involves more than just choosing the right reference from a list. Since I work mainly in Emacs, coupled with AucTeX it makes for a very comfortable writing environment. This is a widely used plain text format for bibliographies. While it gives me beautifully typeset documents, it doesn’t handle bibliographic data management. Since writing papers is pretty much a way of life for an academic, I like to have tools that let me concentrate on the content, yet make beautiful documents with minimal effort on my part.
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