Category Archives: Bibliographies

Collaboration in academic writing: software and beyond

Posted on 2012/11/24 by

Unfortunately, collaboration in academic writing often causes frustration. Academics are used to think that co-authoring a manuscripts means emailing back and forth Microsoft Word documents with endless “Track Changes” and “Comments” layered on top of each other. Whereas writing is … Continue reading →

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Guest post by Ez: Annotating PDFs in Papers, Sente, Skim and other apps

Posted on 2012/10/26 by

Ez responded to the post on annotating pdf in Papers with a comment so useful I reworked it, with Ez’ kind permission, in a separate post. It was prompted by John asking about a “simple workflow”: ‘… [to create] referenced notes … Continue reading →

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Collaborative writing with Papers

Posted on 2012/10/13 by

Preparing manuscripts with Papers in collaboration with other co-authors can go very well if you observe a couple of simple rules.  When I am the only contributor and use my standard writing workflow (OmniOutliner → Byword → Scrivener → Word) … Continue reading →

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Annotating pdf documents in Papers

Posted on 2012/06/20 by

Until recently, when asked whether Papers provide good annotation tools I would say “not really… but they have other advantages …”. There is no longer need for such an excuse. Papers’ support for document annotation is as good as in their competitor, … Continue reading →

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Citation modifiers in Papers2

Posted on 2012/04/10 by

Papers2 are a great citation tool. To use it effectively while writing, check and bookmark this page from Mekentosj which explains how to have citations look the way you want in your papers. For example, if you want to say ‘According … Continue reading →

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Papers 2 is here!

Posted on 2012/03/14 by

My earlier post on Papers and Sente said that the biggest disadvantage of Papers is that it does not allow working with bibliographies. This has changed in Papers 2 immediately bridging the gap between pdf file management and scholarly referencing. As a … Continue reading →

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Using Sente and Papers to handle references and bibliographies

Posted on 2011/09/18 by

Sente and Papers are popular Mac utilities to handle academic articles. Papers focus on organization, reading and annotation of articles, whereas Sente’s primary function is bibliography management (citing articles in your own publications and creating bibliography lists). This post covers … Continue reading →

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Handling academic articles through Papers

Posted on 2011/02/06 by

To handle academic articles through Papers you may want to arrange the following settings for your Papers library:

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