(3) See what bibTeX bitched that it couldn't find. (1) Write paper, ignoring that I might not have all the cites in my bibliography.bib. Done, and I didn't have to learn new stuff to do it. To input a new article, I grab the last article I see, copy it, and input the new stuff over the old stuff. Why? Because I don't have to learn anything else. What is the most likely to not go bankrupt in 10 years after I've put in an irreproducible amount of work into building my database? What is the most useful / flexible / import-exportable?Įditing your bibliography.bib with a text editor and dumping the cites in manually. Any time you save by importing someone else's cites from time to time will be more than swallowed up by the extra time it takes you to deal with a system you don't like. Is it helpful to use the standard, in terms of sharing resources? Or does it not matter so much? Posted by Jimbob at 8:24 PM on March 4, 2007 *tex probably totally rules once you understand it, but at the moment, Endnote works for me. On top of this, my efforts to get into Latex in general were also hampered by my inability to understand, once again, how to install the templates or classes or whatever I wanted.and the fact that all the journals I look at publishing in now pretty much require submissions in Word format anyway. So, my efforts at Bibtex completely failed due to the high learning curve and lack of sensible information on how to use it in a practical way. And I didn't even get around to figuring out how Bibtex interfaces with Word (so I can hit some defined key and have it insert the selected reference, like Endnote does). I also had trouble finding out how to find templates (or whatever you call them) to format the references as required. However, I'm sure there's lots I haven't tried (I've never heard of the "JabRef" you mention, for instance). I couldn't find a frontend that was in any way decent - they all sucked compared to Endnote. I've tried getting into Bibtex, but I just couldn't get it to work. I do wish it worked with something other than Word (like OpenOffice), because at the moment it's the only thing tying me to Word. Illustration (cropped) : LaTeX bibliography plain.svg, CC By-SA 3.0 Dirk Hünniger.I use EndNote. The Zotero and LaTeX page of our Zotero web guide summarises the main things to know to use Zotero with LaTeX. Classic Anglo-Saxon styles, such as the Chicago or the Harvard styles, are also available. Of course, there are many different bibliographic styles available, for various fields, journals or languages: numeric styles (with just a number inside square brackets in the text, and a list of references at the end of the document or chapter) generally used in STEM fields, or author-date styles, more commonly used in economics or the social sciences. An extension called Better BibTeX for Zotero makes it even more compatible with BibTeX, by automatically creating citation keys for the documents, or synchronizing the BibTeX files with the Zotero library. BibDesk works only on Mac, while JabRef works on MacOS, Windows and Linux.īut even if Zotero uses another format, it can easily export files in a BibTeX format. JabRef and BibDesk are using BibTeX as their native formats, which makes them of course particularly interesting for LaTeX users. All three are open source and can create BibTeX files. They can alternatively use a citation manager such as Zotero, JabRef or BibDesk. They can either export the references directly in a BibTeX format from many databases (including Google Scholar, NBER, or the Graduate Institute Repository), and paste them in their. The citation key is lariviere_oligopoly_2015.įor obvious reasons, most users prefer to avoid entering the metadata manually. tex file, using a citation key which identifies them.Ī BibTeX bibliographic entry can look like = , bib extension, which will be included in the same folder as the main. The references are put in a separate file with a. One of them, called BibTeX, was built to help users to cite their sources. Several additional tools have been created to make the use of LaTeX (slightly) easier. This is why researchers using maths (mathematicians, economists, physicists and more) usually adopt it. LaTeX is particularly convenient for mathematical expressions. It separates the document from the style, so it is easier to change the appearance of the document. The main difference between LaTeX and a text-processing program like Word, LibreOffice or Pages, is that the LaTeX users enter plain text, without formatting, and the formatting is done by a LaTeX compiler. LaTeX is a markup-based tool to create documents. How can they cite their sources? Our citation managers specialist Catherine Brendow has some clues. Economists (and others) at the Graduate Institute need a tool such as LaTeX to insert mathematical expressions in their thesis. Sometimes Word or Libre Office just won’t do.
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