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How does anyone do academic writing without a reference manager?

• DanielleMolloy 6y ago
  It’s just for drafts, so you write \cite{somepaper} and fill in the actual keyword later. For those who use it for academic writing such devices remove another distraction from deep fluent writing. Optionally, markdown also has syntax for references.
  • pmiller2 6y ago
    "Syntax for references" is not what's being discussed here. What's being discussed is the ability to write \cite{Robinson89}, and have it come out correctly in whatever style you need, by pulling the actual citation data from a database.
• stjohnswarts 6y ago
  Back in my day when I did such things it was just Excel with some macros and filters. What this person is doing is very similar to what I did, but it was a subset as I use macros to pull up things easily and search the text of them. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/organizing-your-literature-spreadsheet-style https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/organizing-y...
• deleted 6y ago
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