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Questions tagged [reference-managers]

Questions related to various reference/citation management software used for recording and utilising bibliographic citations.

Reference management software, citation management software or personal bibliographic management software is software for scholars and authors to use for recording and utilising bibliographic citations (references).

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Map (tree) of citations/references

I was wondering if there already exists a software/service that allows to build a tree of references/citing articles starting from a selected paper X. For example paper X has a list of references, call it bibliography[X]. This list of references is…
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How does ReadCube compare to Mendeley?

Currently I use Mendeley. I have heard some stuff about ReadCube, but they don't have a Mendeley quick import tool, so… before I go through the hassle of resetting up my library with them, I wondered how it compared to Mendeley. What are its extra…
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Reference management tool with ability to add custom fields

I am currently trying to manage around 100 references from ISI Web of Knowledge. To manage them in a useful way, I need to manage a table, one row for each reference, with 4-5 user defined structured columns (like: which climate variable they…
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Is there any reference management software that supports hierarchical tagging?

At the moment I'm using Zotero to organize my paper collection and for my current work I'm very happy with it's possobilities to organize content (folders and tags). However, working on bigger projects a hierarchical tag structure would come in…
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Relational Reference Management Software?

I'm looking for a reference management program to do three things: (1) Manage references. There are plenty of solutions for this. (2) Manage quotations. Similar to this question, whose suggestions were surprisingly lacking. (3) Map relationships…
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What is the reference manager that can show the list of annotations?

I am using Mendeley to organize, highlight and to synchronize my references. I think a feature where you can see a list of annotations/highlight that you have made will be extremely useful during writing. For example one day you just remember, "Oh I…
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efficient management of PDF/files with zotero

I'm trying to introduce zotero in my research-flow. However, I don't find a way to efficiently manage the PDF files attached to entries of zotero. I use zotero with zotfile extension. The problems that I find: if the location of PDF is based on…
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Monolithic Reference Collection, vs Per Paper Reference Collection, or Both?

When managing References, seem to me to be two-ish, options: Either for each Project, I maintain a database of the relevant resources (In say a bibtex file), and for each new piece of work I start a new one. Or I maintain a single "Monolithic"…
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Clear Mendeley online library

I recently installed Mendeley on a new computer. I had deleted all articles from my previous computer and my online profile also did not list any articles. So my library was/seemed empty. However, when I installed Mendeley on my new computer, it…
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Where can I download a large sample bibliography collection in BibTeX?

I'm developing an application that works with BibTeX files, and I'd like to test it with a large collection produced not by myself, to be sure that the application will handle it correctly and to assess its responsiveness (with large I mean at least…
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Can Zotero collections be used as hierarchical tags?

Few answers under this question have inspired me with the interesting idea of using Zotero "folders" (called collections) as hierarchical tags. Zotero does allow to create folder (=collection) tree in the left pane, and one reference can be put in…
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Can Mendeley create a folder based on a bibliography?

I have used Mendeley to manage references in a paper and create a bibliography. I would like to place all the cited references into one folder in Mendeley - is there a way of doing this automatically? The reason is to be able to share the selected…
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Has a reference manager ever accidentally shared unpublished data?

I was looking through my reference manager and noticed a box in the 'Details' section which says 'Unpublished work, exclude from online catalogue'. I was wondering if there was ever a case of a paper ending up publicly available by accident by this…
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PDFs in Zotero Web Library not synching with my local Zotfile folder

A new Zotero user here. I use Zotfile to put local Zotero PDFs in OneDrive. If I add a PDF file as an attachment to an entry in my desktop Zotero application, the file automatically shows up in my local OneDrive folder for Zotfile. But if I add a…
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Is Mendeley in trouble?

Mendeley is (used to be?) a popular tool for reference management, but it seems that the past year or so it's been in a downhill trend. First they discontinued their mobile app, then they announced that they're discontinuing the desktop application,…
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