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Re: reference manager in Mathematica?

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  • Subject: [mg103637] Re: [mg103590] reference manager in Mathematica?
  • From: Aart Goossens <goossens.aart at gmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:41:25 -0400 (EDT)
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I would like to use it to automatically add a bibliography to my reports.For
example: in Word, I can type in the name of a book, right-click on it,
select the book in Endnote and when I am finished, all the books' data will
be added to my bibliography. I want to do the same in Mathematica.

Main problem is that Mathematica must be able to access the database and
recognize the data and that when the document is exported, a bibliograpy is
automatically added.

ATG


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:15 PM, David Park <djmpark at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>


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