All of my academic writing accesses this same text file database.Īs I read new publications and decide that I want to cite them, I add them to my main bibliography database.
I keep this single (small) text file in a cloud folder, so I will (ideally) never lose it. Using BibDesk allows me to have a single repository for all the details of every publication I will ever need to cite. It centralizes bibliography management.In the rest of this post I’ll simply give my reasons for using BibDesk.
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Rather than explain how I do it, I’ll point you to this excellent tutorial for Mac, which describes how to set it up. There are various good tools that integrate with BibTeX (as the bibliography manager in LaTeX is called), but the one that I found to be most useful for my purposes is BibDesk.
Rather than copy-pasting from previous papers and then adjusting the formatting for each submission, I realized it would be much easier to have a centralized location for all the papers I wanted to cite, and have the computer deal with the formatting according to the style sheet I needed to use.įortunately, support for this is ‘baked-in’ to LaTeX/LyX. On the other hand, you might be used to Microsoft applications and already be familiar with bibliography managers (such as Zotero) that integrate pretty well with the MS Office family.Īs I started my PhD and began writing more papers, I noticed that many of my citations were the same. If you are like I was, and often develop a new bibliography for each paper you write, this is something you might want to consider. Another extremely useful tool to learn how to use is a Bibliography manager. In a previous post I discussed some of the benefits I discovered in using LaTeX with LyX as a front-end.
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