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I'll describe my setup for writing academic publications in LaTeX. I use Papers which is available for Windows and OS X. Their software is quite easy to use. P
by VelNZ 14y ago
I'll describe my setup for writing academic publications in LaTeX.
I use Papers which is available for Windows and OS X. Their software is quite easy to use. Papers can export your library to BibTeX, so I simply export it to the directory of the document I'm writing, include it as usual.
Now the best part, for referencing as I'm writing... Papers comes with this overlay when you press Control+M in OS X. This overlay consists of just a box to type in, you type the title of the paper or author names and it comes up with a search result, select the paper you want and press enter, you can then press enter again to add a LaTeX citation into your document or add more papers to cite multiple papers at once. Since you've exported the library to BibTeX using Papers, the citekey matches. I can't imagine how any solution could be easier than this.
- pseut 14y agoThanks for sharing that. RefTeX is about that easy: "Ctrl-[" then choose a citation style, then regexp search of the bibtex database with the option to choose multiple papers. If you update a paper's citation details (say someone's working paper gets published, so you have to add a journal, etc.) how do you make that change across directories? Do you re-export from papers for each one?
- VelNZ 14y agoYeah, unfortunately you have to go in and manually export as BibTeX after every change to your reference library. It's not very annoying if you are writing one paper but I can see how that would be annoying if you're writing many at once. I suppose one could point LaTeX towards one master library in one location which you export to...
- pseut 14y agoProbably my biggest "eureka" moment was when I realized that I don't publish enough papers a year for bibtex file management to really be something that I needed to optimize... unfortunately I realized that long after I'd optimized the hell out of my bibtex file management.
- VelNZ 14y agoHaha, I actually started using Papers because it was the only software that was a reference manager that synched highlights and notes in papers with my iPad. The BibTeX integration was a pleasant surprise!