Re: reference manager in Mathematica?
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- Subject: [mg103632] Re: [mg103590] reference manager in Mathematica?
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:04:17 -0400 (EDT)
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It would be interesting to know more specifically how you wish to use this. In any case, the Presentations package has a References section that allows you to maintain a set of references. You are free to design any format for the references that you desire, basically using Row constructions. There are instructions for creating a palette for pasting in reference templates with a predefined book citation and journal citation template, but as I said you can create your own templates. You can add, edit or delete references. The references can be inserted in text cells in three different forms: openers, mouse over tooltips, or pop-up windows. At present this is just an in-notebook facility. It doesn't work across notebooks yet. Also, within a notebook there is no pagination so the references are just for the entire notebook with a reference section at the end. One could, of course, copy the reference list from one notebook to another and then edit it. I am interested in how to use Workbench/DocuTools to do things like write books or university courseware. There I think it would be possible to create a references notebook within the Documentation section and then link to specific references from other notebooks that would constitute the book. It would be something like a PDF where you can click on a link to bring you to a reference section and then go back. I've tested the Presentations References facilities and I think they work pretty well, but I don't think they have been tested in serious extended use so there may be issues. I don't think the Workbench idea has been tried at all, but it seems entirely doable. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ From: ATG [mailto:goossens.aart at gmail.com] Hey, I was wondering if Mathematica has a built-in reference manager or whether it is possible to access your Endnote (or other)-bibliography from within Mathematica. The only thing I can find is that <a href=http://www.wolfram.com/ products/mathematica/analysis/content/ DocumentProcessingSystems.html>Mathematica</a> can access a variety of databases, most probably including bibliography databases. Wolfram appears to make a big deal of Mathematica's document processing and report generation capabilities, but there seems to be no (easy?) way to include references. ATG