3/26/2023 0 Comments Jabref versus bibdesk![]() ![]() It also means you worry less about Word-compatibility for ancillary tools.SaaSHub is your independent software marketplace. OpenDoc might change things, but a long document in Word is a nightmare waiting to happen, regardless of how many times you backup. Trying to avoid a derail, but as I always say in threads like this, if you're planning on writing dissertation-length works in Word, consider the alternatives. This is, as you well appreciate, not always a positive thing. Picking up on what JimBob said, the tools most tightly integrated with Word are most likely to tie you to Word and lock you into proprietary formats. Some academics swear by Nota Bene's reference-management and document-preparation tools, but it was old and unwieldy when I tried it, and by the time the new versions came out, I'd moved my work environment over to Linux and then OS X. I tried Biblioscape some years ago, and found it a pain I was also migrating away from Windows at the time, though, so your mileage may vary. I've used jurabib, which literally kept my doctoral thesis in check, and there's also biblatex, which is a newer reimplementation of BibTeX for historians. And although BibTeX was also created for cite-that-journal disciplines, it seems to have been adapted well with quote-that-book. If you need to know what page of a book a particular quote or passage appears, as opposed to the pages of a journal for an article, EndNote pretty much sucks. psychology and others using APA style), but not so much with disciplines where you're using books and other sources, and need to quote material. On the Mac, DevonThink, or Yojimbo to a lesser extent have good free-text and quote-storage elements, but lack when it comes to structured and formatted footnotes and bibliography entries.Īnecdotally, the social sciences vary: EndNote fits better with ones where research is based more upon citing journal articles than books (e.g. I can only speak to the humanities, and say that there is no ideal reference/citation/quotation manager that fits the way a historian or classicist or literature student works: if there were, I would know about it, having spent a long time looking. ![]() So which are well suited for the humanities and social sciences? Posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:15 PM on March 4, 2007 At most, a TeX-aware editor that will dump a blank article or book entry for you. Over the long run? Editing your bibliography.bib with a text editor and dumping the cites in manually.Įditing your bibliography.bib with a text editor and dumping the cites in manually. (4) Input those, being very strict about the mnemonics - always smithjoneswossname2002, or whatever. (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. ![]()
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