Thanks, Rich. I really appreciate the help.
Bruce
On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
So in BibDesk I could create a master bib file that lists all the
references I might use in papers I might write? How though does
the list of
references (a subset of the master list) get created for a
specific paper?
From the citations I insert into the text? And does the master bib
file
have to be in a certain location?
Bruce,
It's easy to get confused by the layers here. There are three
components
involved: a bibliographic database, a .bib file with the references
for a
particular document, and a .bst bibliographic style file.
According to its web site, "BibDesk is a graphical BibTeX-
bibliography
manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use
bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. In addition to
manual typing,
BibDesk lets you drag & drop or cut & paste .bib files into the
bibliographic
database and automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed.
BibDesk also
keeps track of electronic copies of literature on your computer and
allows
for searching your database through several keys." Other such
databases (for
x86 and x64) include RefDB, pybiblio, and a bunch of others. That's
the first
component.
You select the files you want and save the references in BibTeX
format in a
.bib file you name as you wish. That's the second component.
Then you select the formatting tool: natbib, jurabib, etc. Each
of these
allows you to choose the citation style, reference style, and
bibliography
format (that is, alphabetical order, numeric order, or order of
citation in
the text).
The system is a la carte, not a complete dinner in one package.
Rich
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