Aloha Christoph, I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode. I am used to managing a bibtex database and have never found the need to move everything to Org.
Christoph Groth <christ...@grothesque.org> writes: > Most solutions seem to be based around a central BibTeX file and take > advantage of RefTeX to navigate between citations to articles (in LaTeX > or org files), the BibTeX file, related entries in an org-file, and > linked external files. Often the key that connects the various items is > a unique label (in LastnameYear format, for example). This key is used > as label when citing and in BibTeX, as orgmode CUSTOM_ID, and as the > filename of an associated external file. Bibtex mode has functions for automatic reference key generation: http://www.jonathanleroux.org/bibtex-mode.html#0630 You can configure this process. > This seems to work well for people who have complete control over the > articles they write. But what about articles with co-authors? These > must be self-contained, so one needs a separate BibTeX file for each > article project. Let’s say that a co-author adds a new reference to a > common project, but the cited paper is already in my database under a > different label. Maybe that very paper is already cited in an older > article with different co-authors using a different \cite label? Either a separate bibtex file for each article, or separate bibtex files for each co-author. A LaTeX document can use any number of bibtex files per document. In general, you'll want to have the bibtex file(s) for an article only contain the references that you'll use in the article, especially if you intend to distribute the bibtex files as part of a reproducible research project. There are tools that use the information in your article .tex files to create this kind of bibtex file from a larger bibtex database. In my work flow, I have a large legacy bibtex file with about 6,000 references. When I'm writing an article, I create another bibtex file just for the article. I use ebib to open both the legacy bibtex file and the article bibtex file and copy from one to the other, which ebib makes very convenient. Then I autogenerate the reference key in ebib by pressing 'K'. hth, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
